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Preface 



FROM time to time ephemeral publications spring up pretend- 
ing to add to biographical literature sketches of "leading" 
and "prominent" men — for a consideration. There is no 
limit to this form of exploitation on the one hand and vanity on 
the other. Meanwhile the main object of any such attempt, the 
setting forth of the facts, without comment, is lost and with it 
whatever value might otherwise attach to the print. 

This is the first book of its kind published in Cleveland for 
Clevelanders. That it is no larger is due to the modesty of hun- 
dreds of men who have refrained from filling up the inquiry blanks 
sent them lest their motive be misunderstood. To this cause must 
be ascribed the absence from the pictorial pages of many photo- 
graphs of men whose biographical sketches are here included. 

The book has been confined to living subjects because it is in- 
tended to make this a current publication, dealing with current 
matters. Other publications are available for historical purposes. 
Moreover, its main purpose was to offer a list of the younger men 
— the men who are making the Greater Cleveland-to-come, rather 
than their elders. No attempt has been made to select for the 
purposes of this jiublication any class of men, beyond the thought 
that they should represent the city of today. 

No space for any purpose has been sold in this book. The re- 
marks following each name are autobiographical. Not a word has 
been added and except for unimportant changes affecting the 
phraseology employed, every man's description is his own. Too 
many have modestly declined to enter as fully into their achieve- 
ments as the publishers might have wished. But while the com- 
ment, here and there, may seem brief, it was deemed best to adhere 
to truth and facts, no matter how briefly stated, than to err on the 
other side. 

Nothing more is claimed for this volume than accuracy and de- 
pendability as to the sketches included. Another issue may induce 
co-operation by many others whose names are among the missing. 

THE EDITOR. 



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ABBOTT, Gardner; attorney; born, Cincinnati, O., Dee. 11, 1878; 
son of Willard and Caroline Powers Younglove Abbott; educated 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; Yale University, A. B.; Colum- 
bia Law School, LL/. B.; married, Cleveland, Oct. 16, 1912, Lois 
A. Allen; member Cleveland Board of Health, 1912; Troop A, 1st 
Sergt,; entered the office of Blandin, Eice and Ginn, 1905; started 
business for himself in 1909; vice pres. Bates Valve Bag Co.; pres, 
Abbott Kealty Co.; sec'y Babies' Dispensary and Hospital and 
Cleveland Music School Settlement; member Andover P. A. E.; 
Alpha Delta Phi; Wolf's Head; Columbia Phi Delta Phi; director 
Union and Hermit Clubs and Nisi Prius; Chamber of Commerce; 
University, Tavern, Mayfield Country, and Chagrin Valley Hunt 
Clubs. Eecreations: Music and Golf. 

ABEL, William Fleming; manager; born, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 
2, 1875; son of Joseph and Louise Marchand Abel; educated, 
Washington- Jefferson college; married, Pittsburg, Pa., March 18, 
1899, Mary D, Coyle; member Iron and Steel Institute of England, 
International Society for Testing Materials, Automobile En- 
gineers; member F. & A, M., Tyrian Lodge, Phi Gamma Delta 
Fraternity, Eotary and West Brook Country Club. 

ABOBN, Willard Grant; manufacturer; born Wakefield, Mass., 
Sept. 23, 1870; son of George W, and Mary Frances Pennel Aborn; 
educated Wakefield High School; Academy at Monson, Mass.; 
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1893, degree of A. B., and 
A.M. in 1896; married, Chicago, 111., Sept. 23, 1896, Miss Florence 
Louise Higgins; issue, one daughter Mary Louise and one son John 
Eussell; spent summer vacations during college education working 
at engineering on water work construction; spent two yrs. in that 
line of work after graduation; in summer of 1895 worked for 
Spaulding-Pepper Tire Co., of Chicopee Falls, Mass., 1896, sec'y 
for J. C. Pearson, Boston, mfg. cement coated nails; in 1896 be- 
came supt. of the factory; has worked up in the business, pres. 
the Lake Erie Nail & Supply Co., of Cleveland; The Grant Nail & 
Supply Co., of Boston, and the United States Timber Co., of 
Cleveland; member Chamber of Commerce and Builders Exchange; 
in Masonry has taken the degrees of Salem Commander K. T. and 
Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine; member Hermit, Euclid, 
and Athletic Clubs, Cleveland; University Club, Boston; vice pres. 
The Dartmouth Club of Northern Ohio; Trustee Tucker Fund of 
Dartmouth College; member National Geographical Society. 



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ADAMS, Cliarles E.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, June 8, 
1859; son of Edgar and Mary Jane Adams; common school edu- 
cation; married Jennie M. Bowley, of Cleveland, June 11, 1884; 
with The Chandler & Rudd Co., Cleveland, 1884-91; pres, Cleveland 
Hardware Co., June, 1891 ; director Cleveland Trust Co., First 
Nat. Bank, Am. Stove Co., Cleveland Life Ins. Co.; pres. Cleve- 
land Chamber Commerce, 1910- ; Eepublican; Baptist. Clubs: 
Cleveland Engineering, Union, Mayfield. 

ADAMS, Edgar Elliotte; general supt. Cleveland Hardware Co.; 
born, Cleveland, Dec. 2, 1871; son of Edgar and Mary Jane Elliotte 
Adams; educated in Cleveland public schools; married, Wellsville, 
N. Y., Oct. 25, 1914, Elizabeth Carlton; two daughters; first employ- 
ment in father's art store on Euclid avenue; time-keeper for 
Cleveland Hardware Co., eventually working up to position of gen- 
eral supt.; director and member of executive committee Cleveland 
Hardware Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, National Civic 
Federation of New York; trustee and member executive committee 
of Legal Aid Society; trustee and member executive committee 
Hiram House Social Settlement. 

ADAMS, Edward J.; milk dealer; born, Germany, Feb. 26, 1856; 
son of John Adams; educated, Germany; married, Cleveland, May 
7, 1882, Fredricka Franz; issue, 8 children; Republican; treas. 
Milk Men's League, and Martin Luther Church; member Milk 
Men's Fraternal League, 

ADAMS, George Dana; manufacturer; born, Warren, O., Feb. 
17, 1863; son of George and Elizabeth Dana Adams; public school 
education; married, Cleveland, March 3, 1887; Grace Field; one 
daughter, Margaret Adams Schmidt, born, Jan. 19, 1891; entered 
business in 1879 with E. I. Baldwin & Co.; 1884, with Cobb, 
Andrews & Co.; 1886, Adams, Jewett & Co.; 1895, Cleveland-Akron 
Bag Co.; pres. and treas. Cleveland-Akron Bag Co., Buffalo Bag 
Co., Chicago-Detroit Bag Co., Manillia Trading & Supply Co., 
Wagner Mfg. Co.; director Cleveland National Bank; Tryian 
Lodge 3° Cleveland Chapter; Cleveland Council; Holyrood Com- 
mandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory, S. R.; Al Koran Temple, 
N. M. S.; member Union, Country, and Athletic Clubs. 

ADAMS, Harry A.; real estate; born, Tuscarawas Co., O., April 
30, 1861; son of William and Catherine Kohr Adams; public school 
education; married, Akron, O., May 9, 1889, Minnie Bell Heifer; 
in drug business in Akron, O., for seven years; Canal Dover, O., 
1890, becoming pres. and mgr. the Adams, Reed & Rattan Co.; 
pres. Dover Land & Improvement Co., director of State Savings 
bank, member of Dover Board of Mdse., director of Dover Build- 
irg & Loan Co.; came to Cleveland in 1905, entering the field of 
real estate development; vice pres., treas. and mgr. The Adams 
Realty Co., owner of several allotments; member Chamber of Com- 



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meree, Cleveland Athletic, C'levelaud Automobile, Cleveland Driv- 
ing and Willowick Golf Clubs. 

AGNEW, Williara; attorney-at-law; born, Glasgow, Scotland, 
May 30, 1870; son of John and Elizabeth Black Agnew; educated, 
Cleveland public schools and Cleveland Law School, LL. B., Bald- 
win University; married, Cleveland, June 20, 1899, Anna B. 
Coville; Chief Deputy Clerk of Courts, 1903-11; admitted to the 
Bar, June, 1906; member Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Ass'ns; 
trustee Broadway Y. M. C. A.; member Masonic (Knights Templars 
and Scottish Eites) and Knights of Pythias; member City and 
Athletic Clubs; recreations, travel, curling and bowling; (vice pres. 
American Bowling Congress). 

AIKINS, Herbert Austin; university prof.; born, Toronto, Ont., 
March 1, 1867; studied W. T. A. (M. D., LL. D.); U. of Toronto, 
1887; Ph.D., Yale, 1891; Instr, U. of Southern Cal., 1888; lecturer 
on history of philosophy, Yale, 1890-1; prof, logic and philosophy. 
Trinity Coll., N. C, 1891-3; hon. fellow Clark U., 1892-3; prof, phil- 
osophy. Coll. for Women, Western Keserve U., since 1893; member 
Am. Psychol. Assn., Am. Philos. Soc; fellow A. A. A. S. Editor; 
Philosophy of Hume, 1893. Author: Principles of Logic, 1903; 
and papers on Psychol, and Philos. subjects. Translator: Forel's 
Hygiene of Nerves and Mind, 1907. 

AKFiBS, William Joseph; business and philanthropy; born, 
England, Aug. 2, 1852; son of John and Catherine O'Leary Akers; 
educated, public schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Miss Maud 
M. Miller of Brooklyn, N. Y.; at the age of 13 went to work in 
a blacksmith shop, since then interested in the hotel business; 
owner with S. T. Paine of the Forest City House, Cleveland; 
partner Sagertown Inn, Sagertown, Pa.; formerly connected with 
many railroad eating houses; organized the Cleveland Hotel Men's 
Ass'n, and was pres. for several years; one of the organizers of 
the State Hotel Men's Ass'n, and was its second pres.; identified 
with local politics for over 40 years; former member board of 
education, director of the Library Board and in 1900 wrote and 
published a valuable history of the public schools; for over 30 
years director of the Associated Charities; served on relief com- 
mittees in connection with some of the worst disasters the coun- 
try has ever had, Chicago fire, Johnstown flood, Kentucky cyclone, 
etc.; financial trustee Dorcas Invalid's Home; from 1880 to 1890 
pres. Cleveland General Hosp.; 33° Mason; chairman building 
committee. Masonic Temple; trustee Masonic Home, Springfield, 
O.; member the Methodist denomination; lover of out-door sports. 

ATiBL, Michael Albert; physician; born, Cleveland, Oct. 8, 1869; 
son of Michael and Katherine Pech Albl; educated, Cleveland 
public and Central High School; entered the Cleveland School of 
Pharmacy in 1887; studied for two years, in the drug business for 
a year and three months, then entered the medical department of 



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Western Keserve University, received degree of M. D. in 1892; 
married, Aug. 25, 1892, Frances Stadnik; issue, one daughter, 
Frances, 19 years of age, and one son, Oswald, 14 years old; imme- 
diately after graduation from Medical school started to practise 
and has been successful in it; member consulting staff St. Alexis 
Hospital, Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Cleveland Medical 
Library Ass'n, State and American Medical Ass 'us; Masons, 
Knights of Pythias, C. S. P. S. (a Bohemian organization); member 
the Quinnebog Fishing Club, The Norton B. Fishing and the Forest 
City Hunting Clubs; recreations, fishing and hunting, go every 
fall on a hunting trip to Maine. My father, Michael Albl came 
to Cleveland from Bohemia, in 1850. He is still a resident of the 
city. 

ALBBECHT, A. M.; florist; born, Cleveland, O., Feb. 4, 1868; 
son of Herman and Theresa Rebman Albrecht; parochial and St. 
Joseph's school, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Nov., 1898, Cath- 
arina Becker; issue, three children, Albert Carl, Alice Louise and 
Catharina; at 13 years of age started to work and for 13 years 
was with The Cleveland Paper Co.; one year Spencerian Business 
School; 12 years with different firms as florist, 4 years in business 
for myself on Prospect Ave.; member Florist Club, Chamber of 
Industry and Franklin Circle Church; member Forest City Coun- 
cil No. 86, Royal Arcanum League, National Union No. 54, Tribe 
of Ben Hur No. 64. 

AIjBUBN, Cary Rudolph; lawyer; born, Youngstown, O., Oct. 22, 
1883; son of Frederick and Cecelia Luebben Alburn; educated, 
grammar and Rayen High School, Youngstown, O., degree B. A. 
at Western Reserve University, studied law at W. R. U. Law 
School and three years at Oxford University, Eng., where he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law; married, Cleve- 
land, May 22, 1912, Helen Alice Whitslar, daughter of W. H. 
Whitslar, M. D., D. D. S.; head master of Cleveland Boy's Home 
at Hudson, 0., 1910; chief sec'y to Senator T. E. Burton, 1910-11; 
nee'y of Business Men's Taft Club, 1908-12, and Advisory Board 
of Ohio League of Republican Clubs, 1908-12; member Civic 
League, 1913; admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1908; 2nd Asst. United 
States Atty. for Northern Ohio District, 1911-12; 1st Asst. United 
States Atty., 1912-13; treas. The Lakewood Yacht Club Ass'n; 
member law firm of Price, Alburn, Daoust & Alburn, 1910-11; 
member Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; member Athletic, Tip- 
pecanoe and Yacht Clubs of Cleveland, and the United Arts Club 
of London, Eng., and the American Club of Oxford Eng.; recrea- 
tions, yachting and tennis; Cecil Rhodes scholar from Ohio at Ox- 
ford L^niversity, Eng., 1905-8; member Oxford Varsity La-Crosse 
Team, 1906-8; pres. of the American Club of Oxford, Eng., 1908; 
delegate for City of Cleveland to National Conference of Chari- 
ties and Corrections at St. Louis, 1910. 



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AI<BUBN, John Alviii; lawyer; born, Pennsylvania, Feb. 9, 
1879; son of John Frederick and Cecelia Luebben Alburn, edu- 
cated, Eayen High School, Youngstown, Ohio; A. B., Adalbert Col- 
lege, Cleveland; O. B. K. and Magna A. M., Western Eeserve Uni- 
versity; LL. B., W. E. U. Law School; married, Columbus, O., Oct. 
10, 1911, Maybelle Murphy; one daughter, Annabelle Alburn, 
teacher in Youngstown township and in Cleveland night High 
Schools; Chief Probation Officer, Cuyahoga Co., Juvenile Court; 
Councilman-at-Large, Cleveland; Asst. Atty, Gen. of Ohio; Special 
Counsel to the Atty. Gen, of Ohio; was advisor to Prosecuting 
Attorneys, City Solicitors and various state departments and leg- 
islative committee; had charge of such well-known cases as "The 
Voting Machine Case," "The Electric Mule Case," and "The 
Cleveland Canal Case"; as a lawyer have conducted cases in most 
of the counties of Ohio and make a specialty of public and corpo- 
ration law; member of the law firm of Price, Alburn & Daoust; 
member Cleveland and Ohio Bar Ass'ns; member Delta Kappa 
Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, Mason, K. of P., and W. 
O. W.; member Union, City, Automobile and Tippecanoe Clubs, 
and Civic League and Chamber of Commerce; for the last ten 
years sec'y National Eepublican College League. 

AIiDEN, Charles E.; attorney-at-law; born, Middlefield, O., Dec. 
18, 1875; son of Edward H. and Herey Dunham Alden; educated, 
Hiram College; degree of A. B. 1901; legal education at the Cleve- 
land Law School and W. E. U., finishing in 1905; admitted to the 
Bar that year; married, Brunswick, O., Dec. 25, 1902, Ina May 
Gibbs; issue, Marcella Eugenia Alden age 5, and John Butler 
Alden age 3 years and 9 months; in Jan., 1906, formed partnership 
with E. J. Hopple, firm of Alden & Hopple; in 1909 firm changed 
to J. M. CuUough, firm of Alden & Hopple; in 1909 firm changed 
firm and with H. H. Knapp and C. F. Magee formed the firm of 
Alden, Knapp & Magee, for the general practise of law; member 
Ohio State Bar Ass'n, member Cleveland Chamber of Progress, 
and the 22nd Ward Democratic Club. 

ALEXANDER, Harold Graham; treas. National Screw & Tack 
Co.; born, Cleveland, Sept. 5, 1882; son of W. D. B. and Lida 
Graham Alexander; educated at University School, Cleveland; 
Ashevillle School, Asheville, N. C; Yale Scientific School (B. S.); 
married, Cleveland, June 9, 1908, Eleanor Quayle; issue, one daugh- 
ter, Eleanor May 4, 1910. 

ALIiEN, Albert Mark; consulting engineer; born, Akron, O., 
Aug. 26, 1877; son of Minor J. and Frances DeWolf Allen; edu- 
cated, Hiram College; Steven's Institute of Technology, M. E. 
Degree; married. Union Hill, N. J., April 6, 1900, Christine M. 
Pellinger; issue, two children; member firm Albert M. Allen & Co.; 
director Banker's Guarantee Title & Trust Co., member American 



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Institute of Electrical Engineers, and American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; member Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, Chamber 
of Commerce, University and Athletic Clubs. 

ALLEN, Dudley Peter; surgeon; born. Kinsman, O., Mar. 25, 
1852; son of Dudley and Janette (Frame) Allen; A. B., Oberlin, 
1875, A. M., 1883; M. D., Harvard, 1880; (LL. D., Oberlin, 1908); 
married, Elizabeth S. Severance of Cleveland, Aug. 4, 1892; prof, 
principles and practice of surgery from 1893; now emeritus prof, 
surgery, Western Eeserve U.; trustee Oberlin Coll., 1898- ; Mem. 
Am. Surg. Ass'n (pres., 1906-7); Ohio State Med. Soe. (ex-pres.), 
etc. 

ALLYNE, Edmund E.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Dec. 25, 
1874; son of Joseph and Anna Allyne; common school education; 
married, Cleveland May 14, 1902, Mildred Ford; issue, Mildred 
Vernon, born Aug. 23, 1903, Kollin Ford, born May 12, 1905, and 
Stanley Eodman, born Jan. 24, 1913; served five years Co. K, 5th 
Inft., O. N. G., 1893 to 1898; started in Jan., 1900, what has grown 
to be the largest aluminum foundry business in the world with 
plants in six states. He was the pioneer in the manufacture of 
aluminum castings, making commercially first casting in 1908. 
This metal did not begin to come into use for foundry purposes 
until 1900, the tonnage used at that time was comparatively small. 
The Allyne Bro. 's Foundry Co., which later became The Alum- 
inum Castings Co., started its first plant here in 1900; in 1903 
established a plant in Detroit, Mich., and a year later a plant at 
Buffalo, N, Y. ; other plants have since been established at Bridge- 
port, Conn., New Kensington, Pa., and Manitowac, Wis.; these 
plants have a capacity of two million pounds of aluminum castings 
per month, in addition to a large production of brass eastings; 
up to the present time the Automobile Industry has been the larg- 
est users of aluminum castings, but the demand in other fields is 
steadily growing, and the metal is rapidly coming into more gen- 
eral use; The Allyne Bro. 's Foundry is still operating in Detroit, 
having retained the plumbing goods manufacturing department 
and is making a full line of plumber's brass goods; pres. The 
Aluminum Castings Co.; chairman The Allyne-Eyan Foundry Co.; 
director The Allyne Bro. 's Foundry Co., Detroit, Mich.; member 
the Society of Automobile Engineers; Mason, Shrine, Al Koran; 
member Detroit Board of Commerce; Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce; Ohio Society; Union, Athletic, Euclid and Lakewood Yacht 
Clubs; recreation, travel. 

ALTMAN, Benjamin F.; steel business; born, Fredericksburg, 
O., Dec. 24, 1871; public school education; Manager Crucible Steel 
Co. of America, Cleveland Branch; started Park Steel Co.; in 1894 
in the humble position of warehouseman, have been here ever 
since; member Masonic Bodies, Lake Shore Lodge Knights of 
Pvthias; member German Club. 



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AMBIiEE, Judge William E.; real estate; born, Medina, O., 
1845; son of Chester C. and Margaret Eglin Ambler; educated, 
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.; A. M., Albion College, Albion, 
Mich.; B. S., Adrian College, Adrian, Mich.; A. M., Albany Law 
School, Albany, N. Y., LL. B.; married, Lyons, Mich., Dec. 25, 
1871, Flora E. Lewis; issue, four children, Jay C, Angell A., Wil- 
liam and Marguerite Faye; Judge of the Probate Court of Oceana 
Co., Mich.; state senator eight years, from Mich.; Pres. Pro. Tern, 
of the Senate; member of judiciary committee; chairman of com- 
mittee of appiopdis and finances; have practiced law for 22 years; 
pres. The Curtis-Ambler Kealty Co.; vice pres. The Cuyahoga S. 
& L. Co.; pres. The Ambler Eealty Co., and The Eealty Buying & 
Kenting Co.; chairman of the board of trustees of Hillsdale Col- 
lege, Hillsdale, Mich.; member Colonial and Athletic Clubs and 
Chamber of Commerce. 

ANDERSON, Alfred J.; division freight agent, Baltimore & 
Ohio E. E.; born, Butler, Pa., Jan. 17, 1870; son of Samuel and 
Drusilla C. Harper Anderson; educated, public schools Butler and 
Prospect Academy, Prospect, Pa.; married, Washington, D. C, Feb, 
15, 1900, Florence E. Wynne; one daughter, Anna Elizabeth; May 
1, 1890, entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio E. E.; clerk 
in general freight office, Pittsburg, till March, 1891; March, 1891, 
to March, 1896, sec'y to gen. freight agent, Pittsburg; March, 1896, 
to July, 1905, sec'y to freight traffic mgr., at Baltimore; July, 
1905, to Feb., 1907, division freight agt., at Columbus, O.; since 
Feb. 1907, division freight agt., Cleveland. 

ANDREWS, Earl J.; architect and builder; born, Wilmington, 
O., Nov. 16, 1882; son of William Garner and Eachel Seal Andrews; 
educated, Marion, Ind., high school and Marion Normal & Science 
College; married. Canton, O., April 10, 1904, Birdette Wertenber- 
ger; learned carpenter's trade in Cleveland during summer vaca- 
tions and in 1903 finished trade and took up drawing and de- 
signing at the same time following practical building work; in 
1905 started in business for myself; was the first Cleveland archi- 
tect to dispense with sub-contractors and employ my own labor 
and material, thus eliminating annoyance to clients in dealing 
with a great number of men; have built 60 high grade houses in 
the neighborhood of Wade Park ranging from $8,000.00 to 
$30,000.00, in the last six years; high grade homes are my specialty 
and I make that class of work a study for the comfort of the 
owners down to the servants. Business blocks, factories and apart- 
ments are entirely out of my line. I have never once failed to 
deliver a home complete upon the specified time; the whole secret 
of this is the absolute command of all trades during construction; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Builder's Exchange, Al Koran 
Temple Mystic Shrine, Cour De Leon Commandery; member Ath- 
letic, Automobile, Countrj' and Manufacturer's Clubs; recreation, 
bowling in winter months and baseball fan (33rd°), and some 



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golf; my parents were natives of Ohio; my father was raised on a 
farm; in 1892 he moved to Marion, Ind., and engaged in the hay 
and grain shipping business; my father retired from business two 
years ago and bought back his old homestead farm in Clinton 
Co.; I have a brother in Marion, Ind., who is a mechanical en- 
gineer; I own a 60-acre farm south of Columbus, about 50 miles; 
have given it some attention in the summer months, but think I 
shall sell or rent to a more practical farmer. 

ANISFIELD, John; manufacturer; born, near Vienna, Austria, 
March 5, 1860; son of Israel and Amelitv Geldwerth Anisfield; 
educated in the public and technical school in Vienna, came to this 
country at the age of 16; married, March 26, 1886; Daniela Gut- 
tenberg, of Vienna, Austria; issue, one daughter, Edith Karolyn, a 
graduate of Western Eeserve University and a talented musician; 
second marriage, Jan. 17, 1904, to Miss Alice Strauss, daughter 
of Adolph Strauss of New York City; for six years mngr. and 
traveling salesman for the D. Black Cloak Co.; in 1882 established 
business under the name of John Anisfield Co., mnfgrs. of cloaks 
and suits; in 1909 erected the Anisfield Block at the corner of 
East Ninth and Huron Ed.; member Chamber of Commerce, Eoyal 
Arch Mason Webb Chapter; member Oakwood Golf and Excelsior 
Clubs; vice pres. Jewish Infant's home; interested in civic bet- 
terment of the city; a Eepublican; owner of a fine library; fond 
of the best literature and a broad reader. 

ANSPACH, Nathan H.; chief of tariflE bureau, L. S. & M. S. 
E. E.; bom, Evansville, Ind., June 19, 1873; son d£ Herman and 
Eosa Kaden Anspach; educated Evansville schools; married, Cleve- 
land, Oct. 25, 1898, Sadie Goldsmith; two sons, Herman F. and 
Eobert G.; 1889-90, clerk E. & T. H. E. E.; 1890-93, F. P. agt., E. & 
T. H. E. E.; 1893-97, sec'y G, S. A., C. & E. J.; 1897-05, C. C. G. M., 
L. 8. & M. S. E. E.; 1905 to date, C. T. B., L. S. & M. S. E. E.; 
member Transfer Club, Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo; member 
Excelsior Club, Cleveland. 

ANTHONY, Paul H.; contractor; born, Pennsylvania, 1876; son 
of William M. and Sarah Chambers Anthony; educated, public and 
high school, supplemented by private tutors, also experimental 
and research work; married, Allegheny, Pa., 1901, Gertrude E. 
Cox; issue, three children; military service in the Philippines dur- 
ing the Spanish-American war and Philippine insurrection; pres. 
The Standard Structural Co., Cleveland, and same Co., Canada; 
pres. The Hindman-Henderson Co. of Penn.; manager or director 
in allied contracting companies covering various fields of con- 
struction; member American Society Engineering Contractors. 

APTHOBP, Henry; capitalist; born, Mayfield, Cuyahoga Co., 
0., Feb. 9, 1841; son of William and Chloe Howard Apthorp; 



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educated, district school iu Mayfield and later at academy in 
Mayfield and in Geauga Seminary; married, Willoughby, O,, Dec. 
8, 1859, Harriet E. Strong; one son, Warren; worked in a saw mill 
and hauled some of the lumber that went into the building of the 
Kennard House in Cleveland; until 22 years of age engaged in 
farming and lineman and foreman for the Western Union Tele- 
graph Co, and the Lake Shore E. E.; 1876-1880, editor of The 
Democratic Standard of Ashtabula, O.; 1891, mngr. editor The 
Columbus Post; 1887-1909 special agt. the L. S. & M. S, E. E. in 
matters of state legislation in Ohio; in 1892 wrote and published 
a pamphlet against the proposed two-cent a mile railroad fare; 
in 1899 wrote a defence of the trusts, and in 1903 opposed Social- 
ism in a well- written pamphlet; prominent in politics; served two 
terms as member of the Ashtabula City Council, 1872-3 and 1883-4; 
1885-7, railroad commissioner of Ohio; 1893-99, member Board of 
Managers of the Ohio State Penitentiary and of the Ohio State 
Eeformatory, 1897-1900. 

ARBUTHNOT, Charles Criswell; professor of Economics, W. 
E. U.; born, Pittsburg, Pa., May 30, 1876; son of James M. and 
Eebecca M. Criswell Arbuthnot; B. S., Geneva College, 1899; asst. 
in History, 1899-1900; Fellow in Political Economy, Univ. of Chi- 
cago, 1901-03; Ph. D,, 1903; Instructor in Political Economy, Univ. 
of Nebraska, 1903-04; Adjunct Professor, 1904; Instructor in 
Economics, Adelbert College, and the College for Women, W. E. U., 
1904-08; associate professor of Economics, 1906-08; professor of 
Economics, 1908 — ; member American Economic Ass'n, American 
Academy of Political and Social Science; Haymarket District 
Committee of Associated Charities; Board of Management of Uni- 
versity Branch, Y. M. C. A.; member Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce, chr. Sub-Committee on Smoke Prevention; The Civic League 
of Cleveland and Men's League for Women's Suffrage; member 
The City Club; contributor to journals on economical topics; inter- 
ested in vocational guidance plans for the Y. M. C. A. 

ARNDT, Gustav Henry; master plumber; born, Tiegenhoff, April 
18, 1871; son of Cornelius Michael and Caroline Bernhart Arndt; 
educated, public and Evangelical Church school; married, Cleve- 
land, May 20, 1898, Amanda M. Eeppe; issue, six daughters; 
started in the plumbing business in Dec, 1907, on W. 14th St.; 
have a branch at South Brooklyn, which now occupies a two- 
story cement building on Pearl Ed., and is one of the best equipped 
plumbing shops in the city; pres. The Arndt Plumbing Co. and The 
Arndt Garage & Auto Supply Shop; member Ellsworth Lodge F. 
& A. M., Pearl Lodge No. 163 K. of P., Glen Lodge No. 263 L O. 



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O. F. Recreatioi.s: Country and swimming. Am master of two 
trades, plumbing and machinists; had charge of two tool rooms 
and worked in four of the leading E. E. tool rooms in the cit}" — 
L. S. & M. S., the Erie, Big Four and B. & O. E. E.'s. 

AKTEB, Frank A.; retired; born, Hanoverton, O., March 8, 
1841; son of David and Charlotte Laffer Arter; Hanover High 
School and Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; degrees, A. B. and 
M. A., Allegheny; married, Cleveland, Eliza Kingsley; issue, Mrs. 
Fred L. Taft, Mrs. Lewis E. My^rs and Charles K. Arter; director 
First National Bank; Cleveland Steamship Co.; Cleveland Life 
Insurance Co.; Land Title Abstract Co.; vice pres. Children's 
Industrial School; pres. Board of Trustees, Allegheny College; 
treas. N. E. O. Annuity Fund; director St. Luke's Hospital; pres. 
Layman's Ass'n, N. E. 0. Conference; treas. First M. E.; member 
Union, Colonial, Wickliffe-on-the-Lake and Willowick Country 
Clubs; member Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. 

ARTER, Charles Kingsley; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, 
April 24, 1876; son of Frank A. and Delia Kingsley Arter; edu- 
cated, Amherst College, B. A., 1898; Harvard Law School, 1901; 
married, Cleveland, Sept. 23, 1902, Grace Denison; issue, Elizabeth 
and Calvin Kingsley Arter; member of the well-known law firm of 
Smith, Taft & Arter; at Amherst won Commencement Debate, one 
of the highest honors to be gained in college; admitted to the bar 
in Massachusetts, in 1901; immediately afterwards came to Cleve- 
land and admitted to practice in the Ohio Courts; firm makes a 
specialty in corporation and banking law in which I have had 
wide experience, having large financial and corporate clientage; 
Republican; director American Multigraph Co. and The Hermit 
Club Co.; member Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; Chamber of 
Commerce; Union, Hermit, Nisi Prius Clubs. 

ARTHUR, Alfred; music teacher; born, Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 8, 
1844, son of Hamilton and Margaret Hanna Arthur; educated, 
Boston School of Music, married, Delaware, O., Dec. 12, 1871, Kate 
S. Burnham; two sons, Alfred Franklin and Edwin Denison; 
served fTom 1861 to July, 1865, in the 23rd Eegiment, O. V. V. I., 
during the Civil AVar; at an early age studied flute and piano; 
studied voice with B. F. Baker, form and composition with Julius 
Eichberg and August Luch, also studied with Henry Brown and 
Mathew Arbbuck, noted soloists; was tenor in the Church of the 
Advent in Boston; moved to Cleveland and established himself as 
teacher of voice; was tenor at Trinity Cathedral and Second Bap- 
tist Cluin-li; hi 1873 established The Cleveland Vocal Society, a 



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famous organization noted for their productions of large forms, 
such as Eubenstein's "Tower of Babel," Berlioz' "Damnation of 
Faust," St. Saens' "Sampson and Delilah," etc.; visited Europe 
and studied methods of musical instruction; in 1885 founded The 
Cleveland School of Music; in 1887 went abroad again to study 
teaching methods under the best instructors, and selected studies 
and library for his school; in 1878 founded and directed the Bach 
Choir, and in 1892 the Sacred Music Society, both famous choirs, 
noted for their excellent work; director of Oratorio Society and 
conductor of five May Festivals; composer of a number of studies, 
and progressive studies for medium voice, 79 studies for low voice, 
and 70 studies for mezzo soprano, text book on Elementary Theory, 
also numerous songs and compositions for violin and piano; pres. 
and director The Cleveland School of Music. 

ASADOBIAN, Dickran; oriental merchant; born, in Armedan, 
Armenia, Sept. 6, 1879; son of Bagdasar Asadorian; educated in 
public schools in native country; married, Feb. 5, 1907, Miss 
Brownie Vliet of Canton, O. ; one daughter, Adeline Belle; in busi- 
ness with my father for some years; came to the U. S. in 1896; in 
business in Detroit, Mich., a few months, then came to Cleveland; 
established myself in the oriental rug and carpet business; was 
the pioneer merchant in the business in Cleveland; summer home 
at Meyers Lake, near Canton, O. ; member Episcopalian denomina- 
tion. Eecreation: Boating and fishing. 

ATWATER, Albert Ailing; civil engineer and real estate; born, 
Cleveland, May 27, 1868; son of Jared J. and Harriet Root 
Atwater; educated, Cleveland public schools, Western Reserve 
Academy, Case School of Applied Science; married, Crete, Neb., 
Nov., 1901, Emily Daniels; finished special course at Case School 
in June, 1891; followed sanitary construction at Conneaut and 
Dayton, O., for two years; in charge of mining operations in 
Michigan, Canada and Missouri for eight years; city engineer of 
Webb City, Mo., two years; real estate business in Cleveland since 
1903; director see'y and 2nd vice pres. The Adams Realty Co.; 
director The Cleveland Automobile Club; member Cache Comman- 
dery No. 27, Conneaut O., Lake Erie Consistory, Cleveland, Ahmed 
Temple of Mystic Shrine, Marquette, Mich. 

AVERY, Elroy McKendree; author; born, at Erie, Monroe Co., 
Mich., July 14, 1844; son of Casper Hugh and Dorothy (Putnam) 
Avery; Ph. B., U. of Mich., 1871, Ph. M., 1874; Ph. D., Hillsdale 
Coll., 1881 (1894; D. C. L., 1911); served in Civil War; mustered 
out as sergt.-maj., 11th Mich. Cav. ; married, Catherine Hitchcock 
Tilden (q. v.), July 2, 1870; Prin. High School, Battle Creek, Mich., 
1869; high and normal schools, Cleveland, O., 1871-9; member' 
Cleveland City Council, 1871-2; Ohio Senate, 1893-7; Fellow A. A, 



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A. S.; member many history and economic societies. Author: Ele- 
mentary Physics, 1876; Elements of Natural Philosophy, 1878; 
Physical Technics, 1879; Teachers' Hand Book of Natural Phil- 
osophy, 1879; Elements of Chemistry, 1881; Teachers' Hand Book 
of Chemistry, 1882; Complete Chemistry, 1883; First Principles of 
Natural Philosophy, 1884; Words Correctly Spoken, 1887; Colum- 
bus and the Columbia Brigade, 1892; School Physics, 1895; Ele- 
mentary Physics, 1897; First Lessons in Physical Science, 1897; 
School Chemistry, 1904; The Town Meeting, 1904; The Groton 
Avery Clan, (2 vols.), 1911; History of the United States and Its 
People, 16 vols. 

AYER, Frederick B.; insurance; bom. Unity, N. H., Oct. 27, 
1874; son of Benjamin F. and Susan V. Bailey Ayer; educated, 
Preparatory School Kenyon Military Academy, Gambler, O., 1890- 
91; Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., class of 1896, degree 
A. B.; married, Ashtabula, O., June 15, 1899, Agnes Louise God- 
dard; issue, Edwin, born Aug. 2, 1901, Ethel Louise, born Jan. 22, 
1905, Margaret, born Nov. 11, 1906; taught school at Kenyon 
Military Academy Sept., 1896 to June, 1899; principal of school at 
Versailles, Ky., from Sept., 1899 to May, 1903; May 1, 1903, be- 
came associated with Fred P. Thomas in insurance business in 
Cleveland; vice pres. and director The Fred P. Thomas Co.; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce; Delta Upsilon fraternity, Eecrea- 
tions: Tennis, baseball and swimming. 

BACHELDEE, Frank Jerome; division engineer, B. & O. ; born, 
Durand, Wis., July 5, 1877; son of W. F. and Mattie Bowman 
Bacheldor; graduate Univ. of Wisconsin; civil engineering; mar- 
ried, Butler, Ind., Nov. 15, 1904, Mabel Keed; one daughter; en- 
tered B. & O. service as rodman in 1900; transit man 1902; divis- 
ion engineer Aug. 10, 1902; inspector of maintenance, office chief 
engineer M. of W., Nov. 25, 1904; division engineer Shenandoah 
division. May, 1906; division engineer Wheeling division, June, 
1907; division engineer Cleveland division, May 10, 1910; member 
Am. E. A. Engineering Ass'n; Kappa Sigma. 

BACKUS, William Vernon; lawyer, lecturer and inventor; born, 
Cleveland, Aug. 24, 1860; son of William and Lena Strobel Backus; 
educated, public schools and private tutors in German and Span- 
ish; studied in London and Mexico, pupil of Dr. William Windsor; 
one son, Eichard C. Backus, lawyer in New York; one daughter, 
Edna Lois Backus Scott, E. Orange, N. J.; member and pres. of 
Cleveland Board of Education, 1880-95; vice pres. American School 
Ass'n, Mexico City, 1906-8; pres. American Colony in Mexico City, 
1905-7; practised law in Ohio; editor of the following: The Spur, 
The Courier, The American Union, and at one time on the editorial 
staff of the Cleveland Press; in 1890 invented improved system 
of halftone engraving, also improvement in oil-burners; removed 
to Mexico in 1895, remaining there till 1911; while there prac- 



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tised law before the Supreme Court of Mexico, being engaged in 
many important cases; organized and promoted three Plantation 
companies which were merged into The Mexican Imperial Planta- 
tion Co., a $5,000,000 corporation; in 1906 invented synthetic 
marble, a substitute for natural marble, patents were issued in 
various countries; in 1906 reorganized The Jalisco & Michoacon 
E, E. Co., becoming vice pres. and gen. counsel; sold interests in 
the road several years later; left Mexico in 1911, during the revo- 
lution against Gen. Diaz; in 1912-13 introduced the manufacture 
of synthetic marble in the U. S. ; during the same time made a 
lecture tour of the principal cities of the TJ. S.; pres. The Mexi- 
can Imperial Plantation Co., Eoyal Danish Marble Co.; vice pres. 
The Santa-Teresa Banana Co., all of Mexico; pres. The Synthetic 
Marble Co. of the U. S., and The Talosophy Publishing Co., Cleve- 
land; pres. of the Vitosophy Club of Cleveland, (Vitosophy means 
the wise way of living). I have offices in New York, Cleveland, 
and Mexico City; expert in the use of fire-arms but do not care 
for hunting. 

BACON, Leon Brooks; lawyer; born, Taberg, Oneida County, 
N. Y., July 24, 1870; son of Sidney Brooks and Esther D. (Mun- 
ger) Bacon; grandson of Eufus Bacon, graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege, 1810, and Ann Tucker (Dalton) Bacon, of Boston, Mass.; 
B. A., Williams College, 1893; LL. B., Syracuse University, 1899, 
admitted to the bar in New York, 1898, and in Ohio, 1903; Pub- 
lishers Weekly office 1894-1895, in business London, England, 1895- 
1896; married at Philadelphia, Pa., July 24, 1900, Anna Osborne 
Anthony, niece of Susan B. Anthony; children, Harriet Anthony, 
Ann Dalton and Susan Anthony; compiled History of Descendants 
of Michael Bacon of Dedham, Mass., 1640, and History of De- 
scendants of John Anthony, Jr., of Portsmouth, E. I., 1634; direc- 
tor The Star Lubricating Oil Company; editor for Northern Ohio, 
The Williams Alumni Eeview; secretary The New England Society 
of Cleveland and the Western Eeserve; secretary Men's League for 
Woman Suffrage in the State of Ohio; Municipal Ass'n of Cleve- 
land; past pres. Williams Alumni Association of Cleveland; mem- 
ber of special committee of Chamber of Commerce to draw bill 
for Cleveland Municipal Court, passed by the General Assembly, 
1910; chairman Committee of Constitutional Convention Confer- 
ence composed of 25 Civic Organizations of Cuyahoga County to 
elect delegates to Ohio Constitutional Convention, 1911; member 
Kappa Alpha Society of Williams College, Phi Delta Phi Law Fra- 
ternity of Syracuse University. Clubs: University, Cleveland; 
University, Syracuse, N. Y. Societies, : Descendants of Colonial 
Governors; Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New 
York; New York Hist. Society; American Hist. Ass'n; National 
Geograph. Society; Am. Ass'n for Labo' Legislation; Cleveland 
and Ohio State Bar Associations. 



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BADEB, Walter J.; dentist; born, Cleveland Aug. 31, 1887; son 
of Herman B. and Anna Mary Vogt Bader; Cleveland grammar 
and high schools; Western Eeserve University Dental Dept.; mgr. 
Cleveland Branch, New York Tire Filler Co.; riember Northern 
Ohio Dental Ass'n; National Dental Ass'n; member Lakewood 
Chamber of Commerce and Lakewood Tennis Club. Recreations: 
Tennis and Yachting. 

BADGLEY, Sidney Rose; architect; born at Ernestown, Ont., 
Can., May 28, 1850; son of William Edwin and Nancy (Rose) 
Badgley; educated, public schools and academy; studied archi- 
t c '-.ure under R. C. Windeyer, Toronto, Can.; married Alma A. 
Clark, 1872 (died 1874); Charlotte J. Gilleland, of St. Catherines, 
Ont., Sept. 21, 1876. Came to U. S., 1887; specialist in church 
architecture, has built churches and other buildings in various 
parts of U. S. and Canada; vice pres. Equity Savings & Loan Co.; 
member Cleveland Chamber of Commerce; Republican; Methodist. 

BAEHB, Herman C; sec'y and treas. Cleveland & Sandusky 
Brewing Co.; born, Keokuk, la., Mch. 16, 1866; educated public 
schools, Cleveland, and Lehmans Scientific Academy Worms-on-the- 
Rhine; degree of M. B. graduate of first Scientific station N. Y., 
1887; took charge of the Baehr Brewing Co., later consolidated with 
the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Co.; elected County Recorder, 
1904; former Republican Mayor of Cleveland; director Forest City 
Savings & Trust Co.; member Chamber of Commerce; Cleveland 
Gesengverein, Star Turner Society, and active in other German 
societies; 32 degree Mason; Shriner past Chancellor K. of P.; B. 
P. O. E.; Republican. 

BAEB, Frank House; railroad business; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
12, 1863; son of Anthony and Lucy May House Baer; educated, 
public schools of Cleveland; married Bryn Mawr, Penn., July 2, 
1908; Elizabeth Hunter; one son Chisholm Spencer Baer, born. 
May 3, 1909; business career, clerk for The Standard Oil Co.; after 
5 years business training with that company became a traveling 
salesman for Franklin MeVeagh & Co., Wholesale Grocers of 
Chicago; in 1899 went to Europe for a year; upon my return 
entered the employ of the Nickel Plate R. R. as commercial agt.; 
still in that capacity; also interested in other commercial enter- 
prises; Democratic; was a candidate for the state senate when 
Bryan was making free silver a campaign issue; member public 
Library board three years; one of the fathers of the city grouping 
plan and was closely associated in the work with the originator of 
the group plan the late Professor Charles F. Onley; member 
Chamber of Commerce; Euclid Ave. Baptist Church Union; Row- 
fant, Euclid and Transportation Clubs; Collector of interesting 
relics, rare books, old Valentines; have finest collection of old 
valentines in existence, over 2,000 in number; a fine collection 
of old prints of Cleveland, have all but one of the early prints 
of the city in my collection. 



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BAKER, Elbert H.; pres. and gen. mgr. Cleveland Plain Dealer; 
born, Norwalk, O., July 25, 1854; son of Henry and Clara Maria 
(Hall) Baker; educated, public schools; married Ida. A. Smith, of 
Cleveland, June 1, 1876; began newspaper work on Cleveland 
Herald, 1877; advertising mgr., Cleveland Leader, 1882-97; gen. 
mgr. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1898; pres., 1914; pres. City Invest- 
ment Co.; Commercial Bldg. Co.; pres. Euclid Ave. Congregational 
Church; trustee Cleveland Y. M. C. A.; member Cleveland Cham- 
ber of Commerce, and active in municipal and civic affairs. Clubs: 
Colonial, Athletic, Chagrin Valley Hunt. 

EAKEB, Frederick L.; dist. agent Empire Line; born, Woos- 
ter, O., Aug. 5, 1876; public and high school education; married, 
Chicago, June 10, 1911, Irene Carr; one child; fifteen years with 
the Empire Line; being district agent for the past seven years; 
member Traffic and Country clubs; three years member of Troop 
A; Mason. 

BAEEB, Newton Diehl; mayor; born Martinsburg, W. V., Dec. 
3, 1871; son of Newton Diehl and Mary (Dukehart) Baker; B. A., 
Johns Hopkins, 1892; LL. B., Washington and Lee University, 
1894; married Elizabeth Lepold, of Pottstown, Pa., July 5, 1902; 
pvt. sec. to Postmaster-General Wilson, 1896-97; began practice 
at Martinsburg, W. Va., 1897; city solicitor of Cleveland, O., 
1902-12; mayor of Cleveland, 1912-1913; re-elected 1918; Demo- 
crat; member Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: Union, University. 

BAKER, Walter Charles; pres. American Ball Bearing Co.; born, 
Hinsdale, N. H., June 27, 1868; son of G. W. and Jeannette E. Hall 
Baker; educated, public schools, Cleveland, and Case School of 
Applied Science; married, Cleveland Oct. 27, 1891, Fannie E. White; 
organized the American Ball Bearing Co.; in 1894 was elected pres. 
and Mechanical Engineer, still serving; interested in other cor- 
porations; member Union, Euclid, Clifton Park and Engineers 
Clubs; Kepublican; member Unity Church. 

BALDWIN, Arthur Douglas; lawyer; born, Hiawiian Islands, 
Apr. 8, 1876; son of Henry P. and Emily Alexander Baldwin; 
educated, Oakland, Cal., High School; Hotchkiss School, Conn.; 
Yale, B. A.; Harvard Law School, LL. B.; married, Cleveland, 
June 17, 1902, Eeba Louise Williams: 5 children, Henry, Louise, 
Fred, Alexander and Sarah; with Judge Daniel Babat of Crestline 
served on commission to codify Ohio Children's Law, 1911-12; 
candidate on Progressive ticket for State representation in 1912 
(unsuccessful); member Brathenal School Board 1910-13; member 
troop A, O. N. G., 1901-3; organized law firm of Crowell & Baldwin 
in 1908; this firm dissolved in 1911; sec'y Workingmen's Collat- 
teral Loan Co.; director American Fabric & Belting Co.; member 
Nisi Prius Club; trustee Cleveland Federation for Charity and 
Philanthropy; Babies' Dispensary and Hospital; sec'y Legal Aid 



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Society; member Executive Board Civic League of Cleveland 
Municipal Ass'n; director City Club; member Union, Tavern, 
Country, Mayfield, University and Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. 
Recreations: Horse-back Eiding and Tennis. 

BALDWIN, Fred; born, Yorkshire, England, Feb. 11, 1882; son 
of Robert and Martha Baldwin; educated in England; married, 
Columbus, O., Aug. 1910, Margaret May Talbot; resident of 
Cleveland for 5 years. 

BALL, Webb C; jeweler; born in Knox Co., Ohio; married in 
1879 to Miss Florence I. Young of Kenton," O.; issue one sou and 
three daughters; at an early age apprenticed to a watch maker to 
learn the watch making and jewelers' trade; came to Cleveland 
in Mch., 1879; for 5 yrs. had been business mgr, of the Dueber 
Watch Case Mnfg. Co., then located in Cincinnati; head of Rail- 
road Time Inspection System as well as one of the leading mer- 
chants of Cleveland; the name Ball today stands for accuracy in 
construction of Railroad watches; in connection with Railroad 
inspection service offices are maintained in Cleveland, Chicago and 
San Francisco; pres. The Webb C. Ball Co., Cleveland. 

BALLARD, Thomas P.; real estate; born. Canton, O., Apr. 27, 
1854; son of Martin and Sophia Ball Ballard; educated, A. B. Am- 
herst College, 1876 and A. M. 1879; married, Columbus, O., Jan. 20, 
1886, Isabella Clerk (deceased); one son, Clifford B. Ballard; 
married, Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1907, Frances Anne Keay; one 
son, Hyde Whitcomb Ballard; 1877-79, supt. schools Navarre, O.; 
1879-80, prin. Unadilla N. Y. Academy; 1880-90, agt. for Ginn & 
Co. of Boston at Columbus, O. ; 1890, admitted as partner of Ginn 
& Co., 1892-99, Chicago office of Ginn & Co.; 1899-1906, social and 
settlement worker, Philadelphia; 1906, real estate, Cleveland; 1894- 
99, trustee Chicago Commons; 1897-99, trustee Cong. City Mission 
Society, Chicago; 1895-8, trustee Central Cong. Church, Phila- 
delphia; 1913, director Civic League, Cleveland; member Delta 
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; 1886-91, Columbus, O., Club, Chicago; 
Union League, Congregational, Sunset, Evanston, Amherst, Evans- 
ton Boat Club; Cleveland City Club; Council of Sociology; member 
vjhamber of Commerce; committee on Municipal Affairs, 1912; 
vice pres. Cleveland Real Estate Board, 1911; chairman Board of 
Trustees, 1912, and pres. 1913, 

BALZHISER, E. C; ice industry; born, Batavia, O., Aug. 24, 
1868; son of Henry and Mary Balzhiser; common school educa- 
tion; married in 1892, Miss Cora May Walker of Oswego, N. Y.; 
issue, one daughter; settled in Cleveland in 1888, entering the 
employ of the Knickerbocker Ice Co., as driver; by 1893 had be- 
come supt. of the business, which in 1893, was sold to the Forest 
City Ice Co.; entered the employ of the Pictet Ice Co.; first plant 
to make manufactured ice in the city; bought interest in the In- 
dependent Ice Co.; became director, sec'y and mgr.; in 1902, 



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became director and district mgr. the City Ice Co., first vice pres. 
and director of the Company; pres. The Collinwood Ice Co.; mem- 
ber American Society of Eefrigeration, and enthusiastic over the 
subject of refrigeration; chairman National Ice Carnival Exposi- 
tion, held in Norfolk, Va., in 1907; three terms pres. of the 
Middle States Ice Producers Ass'n. 

BABBEB, Arthur Wellesley; attorney-at-law; born, Berea, O., 
Nov. 7, 1858; son of Gershorm Morse and Huldah Laviue Seeley 
Barber; educated, Western Keserve University, 1883, A. B, and 
A. M.; 1886, Columbia Law School; married, Lakewood, Dec. 22, 
1896, Harriet May Wagar; four children; admitted to the Bar in 
1885; member firm of Tanuey & Barber and G. M. & A. W. Barber, 
1885-1902; member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Hudson Chapter, 
and Sons of Veterans. 

BAEKFiB, Raymond H.; printer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 4, 1874; 
son of Samuel and Alice J. Greene Barker; married, Cleveland, 
Alice May Martin; 4 children; with the S. Barker Son's & Co. 
since 1890; pres, and treas. since the firm was incorporated in 
1910; uirector the Floating Bethel; member Chamber of Commerce 
and Cleveland Credit Men's Ass'n. 

BABKWUiL, Charles G.; banker and mfg.; born, Cleveland, 
Aug. 6, 1847; son of Charles and Elizabeth Ball Barkwill; edu- 
cated, public Schools, Cleveland, and Humistons Institute; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, June 15, 1870, Maria O. Steetor; issue, five chil- 
dren; has been principally engaged in the manufacture of building 
brick; pres. The Columbia Savings & Loan Co.; The Barkwill Brick 
Co., The Empire Kolling Mills Co.; co-partnership in Barkwill & 
Bradley, Barkwill & Hodous; treas. The Canfield Oil Co. Kecrea- 
tions: Farming on farm at Dover. 

BABNARD, Ernest Sargent; vice pres. Cleveland Ball Club; 
born, Columbia, W. Va., July 17, 1874; son of Elias and Mary D. 
Barnard; educated, Otterbein University, 1895, Ph. B.; sec'y 
Builders & Traders Exchange, Columbus, O., 1896-7; sporting edi- 
tor Columbus, O., Dispatch, 1898-1902; sec'y Cleveland Ball Club, 
1903-1910; vice pres. Cleveland Ball Club, 1911-1913, vice pres. 
The Acetylene Stove Mfg. Co.; member Belden Lodge, No. 339, 
F. & A. M., Westerville, O.; Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E.; 
Athletic and Eotary Clubs. 

BABNBS, Herbert V.; manager; born, Huntsburg, O., Sept. 18 
1869; son of Virgil T. and Ella Cummings Barnes; educated, dis 
trict schools, Huntsburg, and New Lyme Institute, New Lyme, O 
married, Huntsburg, Sept. 20, 1892, Anna L. Barnes; one son 
Earl H. Barnes; worked on his father's farm until he was mar 
ried; then engaged in farming for himself for 5 yrs.; came to 
Cleveland in March, 1898; was employed by the Brumelage Co., 
wholesale butter, eggs and cheese dealers; has had charge of sales 



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force and was a stockholder aud director until April, 1908; then 
went iu with The Public Hand Laundry, as mgr.; still serving in 
that position; director the Crystal Creamery Co.; member Hough 
Mens' Club; vice pres. Cleveland Laundrymen's Club; member 
executive committee of the Geauga County Ass'n of Cleveland. 

BARRON, Amos N.; manufacturer; born, Charlestown, Mass., 
Aug. 24, 1866; son of Henry and Elana Barron; educated, Preseott 
Grammar School, Charlestown, Mass.; Boston Latin School, Boston, 
Mass.; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; married, Cleveland, 
Feb. 11, 1908, Jane Carson; one year with The General Electric 
Co. in Lynn, Mass.; aud for one year with one of their sub-com- 
panies in Chicago and New York; then entered the employ of The 
National Carbon Co., in 1894, as traveling representative; after 
5 yrs. was made mgr. of the Noblesville, Ind., works; came to 
Cleveland to assist the general mgr. in supervision of the various 
factories of the company; was made factory mgr., aud last year 
asst. gen. mgr. of the company; member American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers, Board of Education, Y. M. C. A., and 
Chamber of Commerce; member Masonic Order; member Union, 
Harvard, Country and Eowdant Clubs, of Cleveland; and Niagara 
Club, of Niagara Falls, N. Y. Eecreations: Golf and Automobiles. 

BARRY, David J.; D. J. Barry & Co.; general insurance; born, 
Cleveland, O., July 16, 1877; educated, Cleveland public schools; 
began career as office boy for the firm of Binghm, Douglass & 
Squire, 1891; when firm was dissolved, went with C. B. Squire; 
afterwards appointed mgr. of the local dept. of the insurance firm 
of Squire, Hahn & App, until November, 1901; with insurance firm 
of Termaine Draj)er Co. from November, 1901, to September, 1902; 
October, 1902, organized the firm of Barry, Lermann & Buerkle; 
in October, 1905, succeeded to the business of Barry, Lermann & 
Buerkle, under the firm name of D. J. Barry & Co.; sec'y and treas, 
of the Buckeye Milling Co.; director Bass Lake Club Co.; inter- 
ested in other corporations; Eepublican. 

BARTOL, George; gen. mgr. The Otis Steel Co.; born, Lancaster, 
Mass., May 16, 1857; educated in the public schools and graduated 
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1877, degree of 
B. S.; began career with the Otis Steel Co. in 1879, starting as 
chemist; elected gen. mgr. in 1898; pres. Colonial and Warner 
Eealty Companies; director of First National Bank; interested in 
other corporations; member Union, University, and Civil Engin- 
eers Clubs; Eepublican. 

BATE, Herbert; florist; born, Cleveland, Dec. 19, 1876; son of 
Eichard and E. M. Pearce Bate; educated Cleveland public schools; 
married, Cleveland, June 30, 1903, Amelia Flick; one son; in 1897, 
started in the florist business with Bate Bros, in East Cleveland; 
in 1904, they consolidated with F. E. Williams, forming The Cut 
Flower Co.; was in the selling end until 1906; went into the grow- 



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ing end of the business and still continues there; now starting 
new green houses at Newton Falls; vice pres. The Cleveland Cut 
Flower Co.; member Masonic Lodge Woodward No. 508, American 
Carnation Society, Florists Club. Eecreations: Motoring, Fishing 
and Out-door Sports. 

BATES, Albert Harlow; patent lawyer; born, Cincinnati, O., 
Jan. 24, 1869; son of Cyrus S. and Lavena S. Bates; educated, 
Kenyon Military Academy, Gambler, O.; Brooks Military Acad- 
emy, Cleveland; Lehigh University; graduated, 1889, Mechanical 
Engineer, Ohio State University; graduated, 1892, LL. B.; mar- 
ried, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 11, 1904, Kathleen Jones; two daughters, 
Margaret and Elizabeth; one son, Darwin Bates; in 1892-3, in 
legal dept. of The Brush Electric Co., Cleveland; 1893-96, with 
Eobert H. Parkinson, patent lawyer, Chicago, 111.; 1897-1905, 
member the firm of Thurston & Bates, patent lawyers, Cleveland; 
1906-9, member firm of Bates, Fonts & Hull, patent lawyers, 
Cleveland; 1906 to the present time, practicing attorney under the 
name of Albert H. Bates; member American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers, and Cleveland Engineering Society, Chamber of 
Commerce and Psi Upsilon Fraternity; member Athletic, Shaker 
Heights Country and Cleveland Automobile Clubs. Eecreations: 
Fishing and Automobiling. 

BAUER, Phillip J.; florist, born, Dec. 15, 1861; son of Simon 
and Mary Brester Bauer; educated, Cleveland Parochial School; 
married, Feb. 27, 1891, Clara Seger; in the employ of Jas. Eadie, 
1876 to 1879; then started in business on Ansel Ave. in 1894; 
proprietor of firm; designer and decorator; member C. M. B. A., 
St. Thomas Aquanas Church. 

BECE, Johann Heinrich; composer; born, Cleveland, O., Sept. 
12, 1856; son of Charles and Eebecca J, (Butler) Beck; high 
school education, Cleveland; graduate Leipzig Conservatory of 
Music, 1882; special studies on string instruments and all branches 
of musical composition; married Blandina Fellar, of Tiffin, O., 
June 19, 1890; ex-member examining board of American composi- 
tions and violin examiner of American College of Musicians; direc- 
tor Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 1895; director Cleveland Sym- 
phony Orchestra since 1900; also of Pilgrim Orchestra, Hermits 
Club Orchestra and Elyria Grand Orchestra, composer: overture 
to "Lara," performed by Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1886; 
"Skirnismal," performed by Thomas Orchestra, Chicago, 1887; 
"Sextet," performed at Indianapolis, Ind., 1888; "Moorish Sere- 
nade," performed at Philadelphia, 1889; "Scherzo" in A major, 
performed at Detroit by Thomas Orchestra, 1890; "The Kiss of 
Joy," performed by Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, 1900; "Meer- 
esabend," for voice and orchestra, "Liebeslied," for same; "Lieb- 
eslied, " for tenor and orchestra; "Aus Meinem Leben, " tone 
poem for grand orchestra. 



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BECKEB, Albert L.; pres. and treas. Cleveland Auto Livery; 

born, Cleveland, March 31, ; son of John and Christiana 

Schlather Becker; educated, Cleveland public and High School; 
thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic Shrine; member Athletic and 
Automobile Clubs. 

BECKER, Henry A.; surgeon; born, Chicago, 111., March 3, 1870; 
son of August Becker; educated, West High School; Adelbert, 
1891; W. E. U., medicine, 1894; University of Vienna and Berlin, 
1896-97; same universities 6 months, 1912; married, Detroit, Mich., 
Sept. 18, 1901, Miss Laura E. Ferguson; one son, William Nevison 
Becker, age 9; visiting surgeon in chief to German Hospital; 
associate in surgery at Lakeside Hospital; assistant professor of 
surgery in medical dept. of Western Eeserve University; fellow 
of American College of Surgery, State and American Medical 
Ass'n; member Sigma Nu Sigma Medical Fraternity; member Uni- 
versity, Clifton, Keswick Goit and Cleveland Yacht Clubs. Kecre- 
ations: Boating, Automobiling, Fishing and Music. 

BECKWITH, C. G.; electrical engineer; born, Dowagiac, Mich., 
Apr. 19, 1870; son of Edwiu Walter and Clara L. Sullivan Beck- 
with; educated. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; mar- 
ried, Cassapolis, Mich., Feb. 19, 1895, Belle M. Norton; adopted 
son, Eaymon N. Ellis; operating and electrical foreman, 1888- 
1891; supt. of construction of lighting plants in various parts of 
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, 1893-1895; supt. electrical engin- 
eering, Montpelier, O., Municipal Plant, 1895-1900; supt. and elec- 
trical engineer, Collinwood, O., Municipal Plant, 1900-1910; supt. 
and electrical engineer City of Cleveland Municipal Plant, 1910, 
to the present time; member American Institute Electrical En- 
gineers, Cleveland Engineering Society, Electrical League of 
Cleveland; member F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. 

BEDELL, Abner H.; insurance; born, Shalersville, O., July 29, 
1872; son of H. C. and Sarah L. (Horr) Bedell; educated, Cleve- 
land public schools; married, Cleveland, March 29, 1913, Bertha 
E. Lewis; paymaster, Ohio Battalion Naval Eeserves to 1896; quar- 
termaster 10th O. V. Inf. 1898; War with Spain; entered insurance 
business, 1890; treas. and director O. M. Staflford-Goss-Bedell Co.; 
Coventry Eoad Land Co.; West Ninth Co.; Cleveland Athletic 
Club; director Guarantee Title and Trust Co.; member Military 
Order of Foreign Wars; member Union, Cleveland Athletic, Her- 
mit, Euclid and Mayfield Clubs. 

BEHBENS, Frederick; carpenter, contractor; born, Hanover, 
Germany, Mar. 17, 1857; son of Frederick and Charlotte Peters 
Behrens; educated, Hanover, Germany; married, Cleveland, July 6, 
1883, Sophie Frese; issue, 5 children; member Verein Deutscher 
Krieger, Woodmen of the World, Socialer Turn Verein. 



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BEIDLEB, Howard T.; manufacturer; born, Chester Valley, Pa., 
July 21, 1872; son of Theodore F. and Martha S. Scrogin Beidler; 
educated, Cleveland public schools; married, London, Can., Dec. 9, 

1897, Willena Martin Stevely; one son and one daughter; connected 
with The National Screw & Tack Co. since July 1, 1889; sec'y 
National Screw & Tack Co.; member Athletic and Rotary Clubs. 

BELLCHAMBEES, Walter A.; hairdresser; born. New York 
City, Jan. 18, 1874; son of Robert F. and Ellen Shugg Bellcham- 
bers; educated. New York City public schools; two years at Naza- 
reth, Pa., Military School; married, Cleveland, June 21, 1804, 
Maud L. Weaver; one son, F. Walter Bellchambers; came to 
Cleveland in 1892; in 1893, bought the business of Geo. Greenfield, 
which was established in 1854; Mason, Brooklyn, No. 454, F. & A. 
M., Hellman Chapter, No. 166. 

BENTZ, Gus A.; merchant tailor; born, Dayton, O.; son of 
Adolph and Sophia Bentz; educated, common schools, high school 
and book keeping course; course at Sartorial Art School, New 
York City; married, 1899, Fannie Levi; member Cleveland Ath- 
letic Club. 

BERNEB, Herman D.; merchant; born, Cleveland, Jan. 12, 1864; 
son of Christian and Magdalena Berner; educated, common and 
high schools; married, Cleveland, April 21, 1883, Margaret Kalina; 
one daughter, Clara, born Feb. 14, 1889; 1889, started mfgrs' agent 
New York City and New England; in various mercantile enter- 
prises; pres. H. D. Berner & Winterbauer Co., New York and 
Brooklyn; proprietor Berner 's Art Store; pres. The Phonograph 
Co. of Cleveland, and stockholder The Bishop-Babcock-Becker Co.; 
member Athletic and Willowick Clubs, Cleveland, and Arion So- 
ciety, New York. Recreations: Golf and Automobiling. 

BEVEB, John Jacob; iron business; born, Germany, Aug. 6, 1862; 
son of John Jacob and Christine Krause Bever; educated, Cleve- 
land public schools and private tutorage; married, Cleveland, Sept. 
6, 1885, Annie M. Dunn; issue, Herbert J. Bever, born April 24, 
1887, Clarence A., born June 30, 1891, Howard S., born April 30, 

1898, Florence M., born May 5, 1889, Helen E., born June 28, 
1900; with The Walker Mfg. Co. for 12 years, in various positions; 
with Westinghouse Co. 15 years, since 1898; with the Otis Steel 
Co. since 1910; mgr. the foundry department of the Otis Steel Co.; 
member Cleveland Engineering Society, and American Foundry- 
mens' Ass'n; thirty-second degree Mason and Mystic Shrine, 
F. & A. M.; M. O. N. M. S.; member Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce, Masonic Club, Athletic Club. 

BICKNELIt, Warren; pres. Cleveland Construction Co.; born, 
Morrisville, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1868; son of Charles T. and Susan 
Payne Bicknell, educated, public schools of Morrisville, N. Y., and 
Massillon, O.; graduated from Adelbert College in 1890; married. 



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St. Paul, Minn., February, 1900; issue, Frances Louise, born, Novem- 
ber, 1900, Warren, Jr., born, 1902, and Elizabeth, born, February, 
1904; business career, for a time studied law in the office of 
Boynton, Hale & Horr; a year and half sec'y Cleveland Athletic 
Club; one year in the coal business in New Castle, Pa.; sold in- 
terests there and became auditor of The Cincinnati and Miami 
Valley Traction Co., and gen. mgr. of the Dayton Traction Co.; 
the two companies consolidated and he became sec'y and auditor 
of the company, known as The Southern Ohio Traction Co., located 
at Middletown, O.; after two years resigned to accept the position 
of gen. mgr. of The Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Traction Co., with 
headquarters in Chicago; resigned after two years, and came to 
Cleveland; pres. from 1903 to 1906, of The Lake Shore Electric 
E. E. Co.; resigned in 1906 to become pres. of The Cleveland Con- 
struction Co., one of the largest companies of its kind in the 
state engaged in building electric and steam railroads, erecting 
light and water plants and constructing telephone lines through 
various parts of the country; pres. Springfield & Xenia E. E. Co., 
Citizens Eailway & Light Co. of Fort Worth, Texas, Havana 
Electric Eailroad of Cuba; chairman of the board of directors of 
the Toledo Eailroad & Light Co., and receiver of the Municipal 
Traction Co. of Cleveland; pres. of two insurance companies; 
member Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Union, Hermit, Country 
and Mayfield Country Clubs. 

BIGGAB, Hamilton Fisk; surgeon; born, Oakville, Ont., Can., 
March 15, 1839; son of Eev. Hamilton and Eliza Phelps (Eacey) 
Biggar; A. B., Victoria University, Toronto, Canada, 1863 (LL. D., 
1893); MD., Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, 1866; 
since practiced at Cleveland; married Sue Miles Brooks, of Colum- 
bus, O., Feb. 25, 1870; formerly prof, anatomy and clinical sur- 
gery; surg. diseases of women. Homeopathic Hospital College, 
surgeon-in-chief Surgical Institute, a founder and dean, Training 
School for Nurses; Member American Institute Homeopathy (hon. 
pres.), Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, Homeopathic Med- 
ical Society of New York; A. A. A. S.; hon. pres. International 
Homeopathic Congress, London, 1911; Episcopalian. Clubs: 
Union, Euclid, Cleveland Athletic, Church. Author: Twelve 
Months of Surgery; Loiterings in Europe. 

BIGGERSTAFF, Charles Thomas; mason contractor; born, Wel- 
land, Can., May 16, 1885; son of Thomas and Harriet Ann Castle 
Biggerstaff, educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleve- 
land, May 16, 1906, Minnie Schroeder; one daughter, Harriet, age 
6 years, and one son, Thomas, age 4 years; his father and mother 
left Oxford, Eng., in 1884, and came to Welland, Can., in 1887, they 
came to Cleveland, where he has always lived; after going through 
the East Madison Avenue public school, he learned the brick-lay- 
ing trade, going into the mason contracting business with his 
father in 1911, as junior partner, and taking full charge of the 
mason contracting business in the spring of 1912; has built a 



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number of brick aud stone residences under several leading archi- 
tects; joined Masonic Order, Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, No- 
vember, 1911; joined Cleveland Bricklayers Union, No. 5, April 
22, 1903; member Cleveland Chamber of Progress, and Cleveland 
Federation of Motorcyclists; member Good Shepherd Episcopal 
Church. Kecreations: Motorist, Swimmer and Base-ball. 

BIGGS, Charles Lewellyn; attorney; born. West Newton, Pa., 
Aug. 16, 1870; son of Andrew Wesley and Mary F. Gressley Biggs; 
educated Fort Scott, Kan.; 1889-1890, and Cleveland Law School, 
1908; married, Chicago, 111., May 9, 1899, Mary Blanche Fletcher; 
one son, Alfred H., age 8; in 1894, engaged in the manufacture of 
bicycles in Chicago, in 1899; appointed state mgr. for Michigan of 
the North American Insurance Co. of Chicago; in connection with 
law business; mgr. for State of Ohio for The Knights of the 
Modern Maccabees; member law firm Bentley, McCrystal, Biggs & 
Staiger; trustee Highland Avenue Congregational Church, member 
Woodward Lodge of Masons, Mt. Olive Chapter Masons, Knights 
of The Modern Order of Maccabees, North American Union of 
Chicago, American Insurance Union of Columbus; member Cham- 
ber of Commerce; educational advantages have been confined to 
such reading as could be done on trains when traveling for in- 
surance companies; degree from law school almost wholly due to 
this method of study; entered law firm of Biggs & Staiger, in 
1909; in 1911, organized the firm of Bentley, McCrystal, Biggs & 
Staiger. 

BILLINGS, Frank; merchant; born, Hastings, N. Y., Sept. 27, 
1853; son of George Whitfield and Elizabeth Ann Warren Billings; 
married, Cleveland, April 18, 1895, Elizabeth Tod; pres. The Tod 
Stambaugh Co.; vice pres. The Billings Chapin Co.; director Bank 
of Commerce, Superior Savings & Trust Co., Guardian Savings & 
Trust Co., and National Eefining Co.; trustee Lakeside Hospital, 
Hiram House, and Babies' Dispensary; member Union, Country, 
Mayfield Country and Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. 

BING, Louis S.; merchant; born, Washington Court House, O., 
Dec. 31, 1860; son of David and Eosina Bing; educated, Cincin- 
nati, O.; married, Jan. 12, 1892, Theresa Nathan; issue, Hortense 
E. Bing, born Jan. 12, 1894, Louis S. Bing, Jr., born, March 17, 
1899; pres. The Bing Co.; member Masonic Fayette Lodge; Excel- 
sior and Oakwood Clubs. Favorite recreation: Golf. 

BINGHAM, George A.; real estate and insurance; born, Eaton, 
Lorain County, O., Nov. 24, 1872; educated, district and Elyria 
public schools, and Cleveland Speneerian Business College; came 
to Cleveland in 1888, as a clerk in Fries & Schuele Dry Goods 
Store; in 1890, started in the grocery and meat business for him- 
self; engaged in that business for 20 years; manufacturer and 
inventor of "The Tru-Kut Cutter," for lard and butter; in 1904, 
became identified in the real estate business with his father, 



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under the firm name of A. L. Bingham & Son, located in The 
Arcade; since the death of his father, in 1911, he has continued 
in the same business making a specialty of selling grocery stores; 
he is a Progressive in politics. 

BISHOP, Eaton Alfred; building contractor; born, Adams, N. Y., 
Dec. 6, 1868; son of Aaron Brown and Ellen Crum Bishop; edu- 
cated, A. C. I., Adams, N, Y., 1882-85, Eochester Business Uni- 
versity, 1885-6, Boston Tech., 1886-1890; construction engineer 
and architect; married, Sheldon, La., June 25, 1892, Fannie C. 
Pynchron; one daughter, Eva Bishop; member A. O. U. W.; 
charter member No. 311, Iowa, B. of A. Y.; charter member No. 
232. Eecreation: Fishing. 

BISHOP, George E.; dentist; born, Smith ville, O., March 24, 
1870; parents, A. B. Bishop and Mandilla E. Hartman; educated, 
public and high schools, Medina, Homeopathic College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Oct. 21, 1906, 
Byrdie May King; issue, George King Bishop, Hudson Charles 
Bishop, Virginia Bishop; practicing dentist in Cleveland since 
1893; member Woodward Lodge, F. & A. M., Colonial Club. 

BISHOP, George Taylor; owner of electric railways; born, 
Eavenna, O., Oct. 11, 1864; son of Clark B. and Arvilla A. Taylor 
Bishop; public school education; married, Brownsville, Pa., Nov. 
26, 1891, Anna L. Swearer; pres. and director Washington, Balti- 
more & Annapolis E. E. Co.; director Cleveland Trust Co.; director 
National Bank of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.; director Munsey 
Trust Co., Washington, D. C; member Union, Country, Mayfield, 
Cleveland Automobile Clubs; Cleveland, Maryland and Baltimore 
Country Clubs; Baltimore, Columbia Country Club, Washington, D. 
C, Ohio Society of New York. 

BLACK, Louis; treas. The Bailey Co.; born, Hungary, Dec. 24, 
1844; treas. The Bailey Co; private Co. A, 150 Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry in the hundred-day service, 1864; director Central National 
Bank, Superior Savings & Trust Co., Acme Foundry Co., Mutual 
Building & Investment Co.; vice pres. Tuscaloosa Cotton Co.; 
pres. Bailey Eealty Co.; was the first director of fire under the 
federal plan under Mayor Eose; member of City Council, 1881- 
1883; colonel 2nd Eegiment, Knights of Pythias, 1885-1890. 

BLAHA, Joseph F.; carpenter, contractor; born, Bohemia, May 
12, 1858; son of John and May Pinopal Blaha; graduated from the 
public schools in Bohemia; married, Cleveland, Feb, 18, 1882, 
Katherine Orosek; issue, 4 children; came to the United States 
in 1877, and received his naturalization papers in 1888; worked 
several months at the carpenter trade at $1.50 a day, then went 
to work for The American Steel & Wire Co. in Newburg; worked 
there until 1882; then for the Sturdueynant Planing Co.; was 



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there one year; in 1888, started in business for himself as car- 
penter contractor; member of C. S. P. S. Lodge, and K. of P. 
Lodge, No. 317. Recreations: Spend a couple of weeks every 
year fishing. 

BLAIB, William L.; railroad business; born, Hamilton, O., Dec, 
27, 1858; son of William Henry and Angeline Linn Blair; edu- 
cated. High School, Hamilton, O.; married, Hamilton, O., Novem- 
ber, 1908, Ella Brant Elliott; member Troop a, O. N, G., 1886 to 
1897; entered the employ Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R., 
as telegraph operator, in December, 1872; telegraph operator, train 
dispatcher and clerk until September, 1880; with N. Y., C. & St. L. 
R. R. Co. September, 1881, to September, 1893; chief clerk and 
gen. mgr. September, 1893, to March, 1901; supt. Eastern Division, 
March, 1901, to October, 1905; supt. Telegraph, October, 1905, to 
October, 1906; supt. Eastern Division, October, 1906, to June, 
1912; supt. transportation, June, 1912, to date; asst. to gen. mgr.; 
member Athletic Club. 

BLAIB, Will P.; brick business; born, Plainfield, Ind., June 28, 
1849; son of Enos and Margaruitte Blair; educated, Earlham Col- 
lege, Richmond, Ind., married, Indianapolis, Ind., Viola V. Sanders; 
issue, one daughter, Marion W. Blair; pres. National Paving Brick 
Manufacturers' Ass'n, 1904-5; also pres. in 1910; member of Amer- 
ican Ceramic Society; member brick committee of the American 
Society for Testing Materials; author of "Direction for the Con- 
struction of Brick Street Pavements"; 1894 to 1909, sec'y and mgr. 
of Terre Haute, Ind., Vitrified Brick Co.; sec'y and member board 
of directors National Paving Brick Mfr's Ass'n; member Ohio, 
Indiana and Hlinois Engineering Societies, and American Society 
for Testing Materials, and American Society for Municipal Improve- 
ments; member K. of P No. 30; Indiana Post Chancellor; con- 
tributed to engineering papers and magazines upon subjects of 
better construction and economy in municipal improvements; ar- 
ticles have been used in such magazines as Engineering News, 
Good Roads Magazine, New York Municipal Journal of Engineers. 

BLAKE, Samuel Cooper; attorney-at-law; born, Euclid, O., Dee. 
29, 1855; son of John M. and Harriet L. Cooper Blake; educated, 
public schools, Shaw Academy, preparatory dept. Oberlin College, 
and private school, law dept. University of Michigan, LL. B.; 
married, Euclid, O., June, 1889, Mary A. Camp; two children, 
^nna H. and Allan B. Blake; clerk of Euclid School Board for 
two terms, and township clerk two terms; taught in the Euclid 
schools for two years, admitted to the Ohio Bar, at Columbus, in 
1883; practised in Cleveland since admission to the Bar; director 
and member financial committee. The Garfield Savings & Trust Co.; 
member Masonic bodies, including Oriental Commandery, Knights 
Templars. 



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BLAU, William S.; manufacturer; born in Austria, Sept. 7, 1875; 
son of Samuel and Katherine Blau; public school education, until 
15 years of age; married, Cleveland, Oct. 20, 1892, Miss Sloss; 
issue, four children, Katherine, William, Jr., Sol, and Alan; three 
years with Cohn & Sampliner, dealers in wholesale notions; in 
1883, started in business on Bank Street, with H. Friedman, in 
1904, firm moved to East 37th and Perkins Avenue, incorporated 
as the Friedman-Blau-Farber Co., manufacturing a general line of 
fancy knit goods; employing over 400 people and shipping goods 
all over the United States; treas. the company; Eepublican, member 
Wilson Avenue Temple; member Excelsior and Oakwood Clubs. 

BLECHSCHMID, John; florist; born, Germany, June 7, 1870; 
son of John and Christina Hess Blechschmid; educated, public 
schools, Germany, and Newport, Ky.; married, Cleveland, April 26, 
1906, Marie Sterk; three children; 1893, worked for Eugene 
Walter, florist, Lexington, Ky.; one year for Wm. Jones, florist, 
Newport, Ky.; one year for Mrs. Hennings, florist, Cincinnati, and 
several other firms and private parties; then was in Indianapolis, 
Ind. ; then back to Cincinnati, as head gardener in The Zoo; was 
there two years; in 1904, started his own business in Cleveland; 
designer and decorator; vice. pres. The Florist Club. 

BLISS, Harry A.; mgr. Bliss Supply Co.; born, Columbia, Tenn., 
Aug. 3, 1871; son of William L. and Anna M. Johnston Bliss; edu- 
cated, Columbia and Medina; married, Cleveland, Aug. 31, 1910, 
L. Blanche Fisher; member Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery and 
Naval Eeserves; worked for George Worthington Co., H. A. Bliss, 
Mfg. Agt., 465 Arcade; Bliss Supply Co.; mgr. director Grafton 
Stone Co.; member Builders' Exchange; sons of Veterans, Cleve- 
land Yacht, Lakewood Yacht, Hermit, Century and Lotus Clubs 
and (old) Cleveland Athletic Club. Eecreation: Yachting. 

BOGGIS, Herbert James; mfr.; born, Lock Haven, Pa., March 22, 
1862; son of Kobert H. and Helen Taylor Boggis; educated, Yale, 
1885; married, Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 1886, Sarah W. Parsons; 
issue, Mrs. E. H. Wright, Oct. 20, 1888, Henry P., May 21, 1895, 
Mildred, Feb. 9, 1900; began work with Mcintosh-Huntington Co.; 
entered employ of the Taylor & Boggis Foundry Co. in 1886, be- 
coming sec'y of company in the fall of 1887; took charge of No. 2 
foundry in 1890, and in 1910, upon death of Mr. Boggis, Sr., took 
charge of foundry; vice pres. the Taylor & Boggis Foundry Co.; 
member Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chamber of Commerce; pres. College 
Club. 

BOLTON, Charles C; capitalist; born, Cleveland, March 23, r855; 
son of Judge Thomas Bolton; educated, public schools. Miss Guil- 
ford's Academy, the Phillips Exeter Academy, of Exeter, N. H., 
and Harvard University, B. A., 1877; married, Cleveland, Nov. 24, 
1880, Miss Julia Castle, daughter of William Castle, a former mayor 
of Cleveland; four surviving children: Chester, Irving, Newell 



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and Julian; after graduating, spent two years traveling abroad; 
became identified with Ehodes & Co., the predecessors of M. A. 
Hanna & Co.; remained with that firm 25 years; retired in 1904, 
devoting time to private interests; charter member of Troop A; 
served in every capacity from private to captain; now veteran 
member; life member Chamber of Commerce; director and chair- 
man of Military Committee; Republican; member St. Paul's Epis- 
copal Church, Union, University and Country Clubs, of Cleveland, 
and Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh; interested in charity and philan- 
thropy; former pres. Associated Charities. Eecreations: Hunting, 
Fishing, Travel and Motoring; member Winan's Point Shooting 
Club and Castalia Sporting Club. 

BOMGAEDNER, Joseph; mfr.; born, Wilmot, O., 1855; son of 
B. F, and Harriet Putnam Bomgardner; educated, graded school, 
Winfield, O., Commercial School, Painesville, O., Literary Course 
Mount Union College, Alliance, O.; married, Winfield, O., Oct. 24, 
1878, Kizzie Olis; 4 children; no military record, and takes very 
little interest in politics; worked on his fathers' farm until he 
was 21; salesman on the road for 30 years; in the meantime, in- 
vented a number of patent articles and is now engaged in the 
manufacture of a number of them; namely, elevators, invalid 
chairs, and beds, etc.; member advisory board. Colonial Savings 
& Loan Co.; member Chamber of Industry. Eecreation: Farming. 

BOMMHAEDT, John A.; patent and claim attorney, born, Hast- 
ings, Minn., Sept. 14, 1862; son of Jacob and Elizabeth Glock 
Bommhardt; educated, St. Paul's German Parish School, May- 
flower School, and Business College, all of Cleveland; married, 
Cleveland, July 21, 1901, Catherine F. Kavanaugh; issue, two chil- 
dren; sec'y Cuyahoga County Eepublican Executive Committee, 
since 1909; Past State Commander Ohio Division of Sons of 
Veterans; see'y of Cuyahoga County Memorial Day Committee 
since 1900; entered the law ofiice of the late Milo B. Steven, in 
January, 1880, and was connected with the pension and patent 
business of this firm until 1908; being located at Cleveland, Chi- 
cago, Detroit, and for a short period at Washington, D. C; in 1908, 
started in business for himself; solicitor and attorney in matters 
pertaining to patents and pensions and departmental practises, 
with offices in Cleveland and Washington; firm name John A. 
Bommhardt & Co.; member Woodward Lodge, No. 508, and Al 
Sirat Grotto, No. 17; Lookout Camp, Sons of Veterans; Cleveland 
Lodge, No. 18, Elks; Cleveland Lodge No. 63, Loyal Order of 
Moose; member German Club. 

BONESTEEL, Willis E.; sec'y Worden Tool Co.; born, North- 
ampton, O., Oct. 7, 1862; son of George H. and Loretta C. Prior 
Bonesteel; public school education; married, Cleveland, Oct. 4, 
1886, Annabell Scott; director Land Title Abstract Co., Cleveland 



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Saviugs & Loan Co.; member Brooklyn Lodge, F. & A. M., Webb 
chapter, E. A. M., Oriental commandery, K. T., Lake Erie Con- 
sistory, Al Koran Temple. 

BONHABD, Alfred M.; merchant; born in Eussia, July, 1869; 
son of Marcus Bonhard; educated in the schools and seminary at 
Slonin, Eussia; married in Pennsylvania, July 22, 1898; Eebecca 
Weberman, issue, one son, Marcus, and one daughter Florence; in 
young manhood traveled through Eussia and other parts of Europe, 
learning the furniture-making business; came to the United States 
in 1895; spent two years working in eastern cities; came to Cleve- 
land and started a repair shop; from this small beginning grew 
one of the most artistic furniture houses in the city, designs his 
own patterns and has won a reputation on art furniture; member 
of the independent Order of B'nai B'rith. 

BONTA, Maurice Buford; physician; born, Kentucky, 1875; B. 
S., University of Michigan, 1897; M. D., Johns Hopkins University, 
1904; medical house officer for Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1904-1905; 
married, Cleveland, 1909, Mabel Wilson McLennon; one child; 
member Cleveland Academy of Medicine. 

BORGERHOFF, Joseph Leopold; University prof.; born, Bel- 
gium, Sept. 27, 1870; sou of Theodore and Elizabeth (Opt' Eynde) 
Borgerhoff; education, Ecole Moyenne, Lean; Ecole Normale de 
I'Etat, Burgess; University of Brussels; came to America in 1895; 
M. A., Vanderbilt University, Tenn., 1901; studied University of 
Wisconsin, University of Chicago; married Elizabeth Woodward 
Guerard, of Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 16, 1903; fellow and assistant in 
romance languages, Vanderbilt University, 1900-1; assistant in 
Germanic languages, University of Wisconsin, 1901-1902; fellow 
in Eomance languages and assistant in Spanish, University of 
Chicago, 1902-1903; instructor romance languages, 1903-1906, asso- 
ciate professor, 1906-1910, professor since 1910, Western Eeserve 
University; member Modern Language Ass'n, American. Club: 
Alliance Francaise, of Cleveland (pres.); editor, Laurie's Memoirea 
d'un Collegien, 1908; Eostand's La Princesse Lointaine, 1909, con- 
tributor Modern Language Notes, Sewance Eeview, Nation, Le 
Soir (Brussels), etc. 

BORTON, Fred S.; sec'y Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern E. E.; 
born, Plymouth, Ind., Oct. 25, 1861; public school education; came 
to Cleveland, 1881; with Geo. Cooper & Co., till 1884; then with 
the American Wire Co.; 1884-1891, with Dime Savings & Banking 
Co.; asst. treas.; elected sec'y Cleveland Electric E. E. Co., and the 
A. B. C. E. E. Co.; then in various capacities with the Everett- 
Moore Syndicate; in 1906, severed connection; with Herrick, Parm- 
lee & Crawford, with which firm closely associated in 1904 and 
1905; and with his brother, T. E. Borton, established the firm of 
F. S. & T. E. Borton; member Union, Euclid, and Hermit Clubs; 
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BOSTON, Thomas Ernest; broker; born, Plymouth, Ind., Dec. 14, 
1868; son of Dr. Amos O. and Mary Cooper Borton; educated, high 
school; graduated in 1887; went to Wabash College, graduating in 
1893; married, Elyria, O., Miss Elizabeth Lewis; issue, three chil- 
dren, Marion Frances, Jean Lewis and Kobert Ernest; entered the 
employ of the American Steel & Wire Co.; worked for Dime Sav- 
ings and Trust Co.; then became sec'y of the Eeserve Trust Co.; 
then sec'y and treas. of the Prudential Trust Co.; resigned and 
went to California; after two years there returned to Cleveland 
as asst. cashier of the Cleveland National Bank; after two years 
joined his brother, Fred S. Borton, in the formation of the firm 
of Borton & Borton, brokers; treas. Shaker Heights Improvement 
Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Union, Hermit, and Euclid 
Clubs; member Windemere Presbyterian Church. 

BOUENE, Henry Eldridge; college professor; born, E. Hamburg, 
N. Y., April 13, 1862; sou of James E. and Isabella G. Staples 
Bourne; A. B., Yale University, 1883, B. D. 1887 (Hooker fellow, 
1887-1888); (L. H. D., Marietta College, Ohio, 1910); married; asso- 
ciate editor The Congregationalist, Boston, 1888-1889; teacher his- 
tory and pshychology, Norwich (Conn.), Free Academy, 1889-1892; 
prof, history, since 1892; registrar, 1893-1901; College for Women, 
Western Reserve University. Author: The Teaching of History and 
Civics, 1902; Medieval and Modern History, 1905. Editor: 
Lecky's French Eevolution, 1904. Contributor to reviews. 

BOWLER, Walter Noadiah; pres. Forest City Paint & Varnish 
Co.; born, Cleveland, O., March 25, 1849; son of Noadiah and Sarah 
Cordelia Hannum Bowler; attended Cleveland public schools; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, May 22, 1870, Frances Shailor; issue, Walter Scott 
Bowler, born Jan. 10, 1872, Edward Frances Bowler, born Nov. 19, 
1874, Ralph Wilcox Bowler born Nov. 27, 1879, and Florence 
Frances Bowler, born March 3, 1884; married, second time, July 
19, 1899, Ida May Lacy; at the age of 15, left school, and went to 
work in B. F. Fox insurance oflSce; in Cleveland office of O. D. 
Case & Co., Hartford, Conn.; pub. of "Greely's American Con- 
flict"; bookkeeper for J. J. Parsons & Co.; from 19 to 40 with 
Cleveland, Brown & Co., iron and steel manufacturers; he went 
from desk to desk, and eventually became a member of the firm; 
in 1889, became connected with the Forest City Paint and Varnish 
Co.; has been connected with its growth from a very small con- 
cern to one of Cleveland's most important plants, is now pres. and 
treas. of the company; vice pres. Bowler Foundry Co.; pres. Ever- 
sticks Patent Co.; stockholder Bruce-McBeth Co.; Cleveland Column 
Co.; trustee and vestryman Church of The Epiphany; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Athletic Club. Eecreation: Work. 

BOYD, William H.; lawyer; born, Londonderry, Guernsey County, 
O., Aug. 11, 1864; educated, district schools in native county and 



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public school in Fairview, O.j look up the study of law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1890; married, Sept. 7, 1892, Miss Anna 
Maud Judkius, of Mushing, O.; Mrs. Boyd died in September, 1908; 
member firm of Westenhaver, Boyd, Sudolph & Brooks; in street 
car war, one of the lawyers for the Municipal Tracticn Co.; Repub- 
lican; clerk of Flushing Township, in Belmont County; corpora- 
tion clerk of Flushing, 1888, 1890, 1891; police prosecutor during 
absence of Mr. Fielder; asst. director of law 1897-1898; desires to 
keep free from political entanglements and give entire time to pro- 
fession. 

BBADLEY, Arthur; law and insurance; born, Philadelphia, Pa., 
Jan. 18, 1856; son of Joseph William and Clara Amelia Morse 
Bradley; educated, Swathmore College, Pa., class of '76, degree 
A. B.; studied and admitted to the practice of law in Philadelphia, 
Pa., 1881; Ohio U. S. Courts in 1910; married, Philadelphia, Pa., 
Nov. 24, 1891, Alice Deering llsley; one son, Arthur llsley Bradley, 
born July 25, 1899; practised law in Philadelphia until 1886; gen- 
eral publishing business, 1886-1888; connected with West Pub. Co. 
of St. Paul, Minn, (law publishers), 1888-1891; general solicitor of 
Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving Co., N. Y., 1881-1901; general in- 
surance business, legal and expert work, from 1903 to date; 
Masonic Fraternity and Elks; Past Master Franklin Lodge, No. 
134, Philadelphia, Pa., Signet Chapter, No. 25 (no oflice); Elks 
Peoria Lodge, No. 20; pres. the Builders Exchange, 1898-1899; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Ass'n of Credit Men, 
Mens' League for Equal Suffrage; member University, Eowfant, 
and Automobile Clubs. Recreations: Tennis, Fishing and 
Farming. 

BEADLEY, Dan Freeman; clergyman; born, Bangkok, Siam, 
March 17, 1857; son of Dan Beach and Sarah (Blachly) Bradley; 
educated, Oberlin College, 1882, Oberlin Theological Seminary, 
1885, Oberlin Honorary Degree Doctor of Divinity, 1909; same 
degree, Cornell College, 1904; married, Oberlin, 0., July 9, 1883, 
Lillian Jaques; three sons, Dwight J., Robert G., and Theodore 
Bradley; pastor Steubenville Ohio, Congregational Church, 1885- 
1887; Yankton, S. D., 1887-1892; Grand Rapids, Mich., 1892-1902; 
pres. Iowa College, Grinnel, la., 1902-1905; pastor Pilgrim Church, 
Cleveland, 1905 to date; has gymnasium, branch of public library 
cooking school and mothers club; has been instrumental in the 
organization of the above; member Congregational National 
Council, Congregational Conference of Ohio, Congregational Union, 
Cleveland, Federated Churches, Cleveland, trustee Oberlin College, 
Schauflier School, Cleveland, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Congregational Club, Cleveland. 
Recreations: Base-ball, Rowing and Fishing. 

BBADLEY, Morris A.; real estate; born, Cleveland, Aug. 15, 
1859; son of Alva Bradley; educated, public schools and Hiram 
College; married, Cleveland, May 10, 1883, Anna Leiminger; issue, 



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five children; with his father, Alva Bradley, until 1885; at his 
death, took charge of the estate; pres., treas. and mgr. The 
Bradley Transportation Co.; pres. Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co.; 
vice. pres. United States Coal Co.; director Peoples Gas, Light 
and Coke Co., and interested in a number of other corporations; 
member Union, Euclid, and Eoadside Clubs; Eepublican. 

BRADY, James Albert; insurance; born, Franklin, Pa., Nov. 16, 
1880; son of John and Isabelle Kingman Brady; educated, High 
School, Union City, Pa., graduate; studied Allegheny College, 
Meadville, Pa., Columbia University, "Washington, D. C, and Johns 
Hopkins, Baltimore, Md.; married, Erie, Pa., June 3, 1905, Miriam 
E. Goodnough; two children, Louise Belle, age 6, and James A. Jr., 
age 4; came to Cleveland on Dec. 5, 1902, to enter life insurance 
work for The Mutual Life Insurance Co., in November, 1907, 
formed a partnership with E. A. Tuttle, the firm to take charge of 
Northern Ohio for The Midland Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Brady 
& Tuttle, gen. mgrs. for Northern Ohio for The Midland Mutual 
Life Insurance Co.; trustee Euclid Avenue Baptist Church; 
member Phi Kappa Psi National College Fraternity; served as 
sec'y and pres. of the Cleveland Alumni Ass'n, in 1903-1904; 
member Lakewood Tennis Club. 

BBAINAED, Tyler W.; merchant; bom, Brooklyn, O., Nov. 19, 
1848; son of George W. and Delight Hall Brainard; educated, dis- 
trict school in the village of Brighton; enlisted in the army in 
1864, so that ended his school days; married, Ashtabula, 0., Oct. 
15, 1872, L. Adella Puffu; one daughter, Mabel; was elected to city 
Council for one term in 1884; traveling salesman for Tuller, Warren 
& Co., from 1872-1875; in 1876, engaged in the wall paper and 
decorating business, on Pearl Street; still in the business; was 
charter member in organizing the Brooklyn Heights Cemetery; 
was Ist. vice pres. for 19 years; pres. the board of trustees, 
Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, in 1886; pres. for one year Cuyahoga 
County Soldiers and Sailors Ass'n; member Memorial Post, G. A. 
R., No. 141, since 1880; has held different offices; member Masonic 
Lodge Halcyon, No. 498; also Forest City Commandery, No. 40. 

BRAMLBY, William Alfred; florist; born, Cleveland, Nov. 23, 
1873; son of Charles and Sarah Kennedy Bramley; public school 
education; married, Cleveland, Nov. 23, 1898, Anna Marie Mann; 
four sons and one daughter; started in the florist business with his 
father, under the firm name of Charles Bramley & Son; in 1898, 
he purchased his father's interest, and now conducts the business 
under the firm name of Bramley & Son; in 1908, greatly increased 
the capacity of the plant, now having 40,000 square feet under 
glass; the firm has the largest green houses in Cleveland, with all 
modern equipment; make a specialty of wedding decorations, 



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funeral flowers, and bedding plants; member Masonic bodies, and 
Al Koran Temple, N. M. S.; member of the Knights of Pythias 
and Maccabees; Masonic and Bramley & Son Boosters Clubs. 
Eecreations: Hunting, Fishing and Base-ball, 

BRANDT, William J.; machinist and garage owner; born, Ger- 
many, Sept. 10, 1882; son of F. J. and M. Prahl Brandt; educated, 
public schools; married, Cleveland, O., October, 1905, Betha Yeaske; 
started in the automobile business in 1906, after working at the 
machinists' trade for 10 years; owner of The Brandt Motor Car Co. 

BEETT, William Howard; librarian, Cleveland Public Library; 
born, Braceville, O., in 1846; son of Morgan Lewis and Jane 
Brokaw Brett; educated, public schools, Warren, O., studied 
Western Keserve College, Hudson, O., University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor, Mich.; graduated from Hiram College, Hiram, O., 
degree A. M.; married, Cleveland, 1879, Alice L. Allen; issue, 6 
children, 1 deceased; appointed to his present position in 1884; 
devoted to the cause of public libraries, and a student with a broad 
general knowledge; instrumental in forming the Ohio Library 
Ass'n, pres., 1895 and 1896; in 1897, pres. of the American Library 
Ass'n; chairman, in 1898, of the Trans-Mississippi Library Con- 
gress; since 1903, Dean of Western Eeserve Library School, and 
originator of the Culminativc Index; member Chamber of Com- 
merce and the Kowfant Club. 

BREWER, Abraham T.; lawyer; born in Monroe County, 0., 
Sept. 20, 1841; son of Abraham and Mary (Mitchell) Brewer; edu- 
cated, Indiana County, Pa., and Harlem Springs College, 1865-1866; 
LL. B., Ohio State Law College (Harlem Springs); married, Nov. 
21, 1900, Clara Genella, daughter of Eev. John H. and Laura L. 
Tagg; served over three years in 61st Pennsylvania Volunteers in 
Civil War; seriously wounded at battle of Fair Oaks, and lay two 
days on battlefield without attention; admitted to bar, 1869. 
Author: Ohio Corporations, 5th edition, 1903; How to Make the 
Sunday School Go, 1892; True War Stories, 1907; History of Sixty- 
First Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1911, etc. 

BROADWELL, Olin Witmer; attorney-at-law; born, Dalton, O., 
Feb. 14, 1855; son of Rev. John Sherman and Catherine S. Morrow 
Broadwell; educated, Baldwin University, Berea, O., graduating 
with the class of 1877, with the degree of B. S.; married, Cleve- 
land, Jan. 5, 1882, Belle B. Brown; one son, Edwin Sherman Broad- 
well, and Mrs. Myrtle May Masters; served as special assistant 
prosecuting attorney for some time, under the administrations of 
Hon. W. B. Neff, Hon. T. L. Stremple and Hon. Harvey R. Keelor; 
admitted to the Bar, April 4, 1879, at Norwalk, O.; came to Cleve- 
land in September, 1881, and became associated with the Forest 
City Fire Insurance Co.; after several years entered upon the 
general practice of law; won a reputation as a trial lawyer, and 



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as assistant prosecuting attorney, he took part in many im- 
portant cases; member Masonic, Knights of Pythias, National 
Union and Knights and Ladies of Security, Fraternities; his father, 
Eev. J. S. Broadwell, was of New England stock, dating back to 
English and French Huguenot ancestry; one of the best known 
ministers of the Methodist Denomination in Northern Ohio. 

BROGGINI, James; granite carver; born, Brenno, Italy, June 
9, 1850; son of John and Lucia Paretti Broggini; jjublic school 
education; married. New York, May 10, 1879, Maria Comolli; at 
the age of 9 years went to work in Italy; came to this country 
in 1871; worked for the United States Governm'^nt 8 years and 
then came to Cleveland and started in his present business; has 
been in the same location for 33 years. 

BROOKS, Charles S.; born, Cleveland, Jan. 25, 1878; son of 
Stephen E. and Mary Coffinberry Brooks; educated, Yale Univers- 
ity, class 1900; married, Cleveland, Oct. 12, 1907, Minerva Kline; 
entered the Brooks Co. in 1900; made sec'y of the Company in 
1910; also director; member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and May- 
field, University and City Clubs. 

BROOKS, Charles Twing; lawyer; born, Salem, O., March 29, 
1867; son of J. Twing and Annie P. Miller Brooks; educated, Yale, 
A. B., 1889; Harvard, LL. B., 1894; member firm Squires, Saunders 
& Co.; member Union, University, Tavern, Country and Mayfield 
Clubs, Cleveland, and University Club, New York. 

BROOKS, Stephen E.; pres. The Brooks Co., mfg. stationers and 
printers; born, Elyria, O., Dec. 13, 1850; son of Henry J. and Aba- 
gail Hart Brooks; grandfather, Samuel Brooks, one of Lorain 
County's early settlers, driving ox team from Connecticut; family 
moved to Cleveland in 1861; public school education; 1871, founded 
present house of the Brooks Co., which was incorporated in 1878, 
with himself as president, the position he still holds; pres. of the 
Forest City Savings & Trust Co., of which he was an incorporator; 
director Peoples' Savings Bank Co.; director W. S. Gilkey Printing 
Co.; stockholder of many banks and industrial incorporations; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Mayfield 
Club; married, Cleveland, June, 1874, Mary E. Coffinberry, the 
daughter of Judge J. M. Coffinberry; issue, two sons, James C. and 
Charles S. 

BROWN, Ernest B.; mfr.; born, Troy, N. H., June 7, 1874; son 
H. J. and A. M. Bemis Brown; Grammar and High School edu- 
cation, Cleveland schools; married, Cleveland, Jan. 7, 1903, Mabel 
S. Herringshaw; two children, E. B. Brown; mfr. and dispensing 
optician; Cour De Lon Commandery, No. 64; Al Koran Temple, 
N. M. S.; member Athletic and Kotary Clubs, 



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BROWN, Orlof T.; insurance; born, Cambridge, O., Aug. 16, 
1870; son of Joshua and Annie E. Tingle Brown; common school 
education; married, Columbus, O., Aug. 16, 1904, Alberta E. Fowler; 
one son and one daughter; observer United States Weather 
Bureau; state examiner, Ohio; chief deputy State fire marshal, 
Ohio; examiner city of Cleveland; bookkeeper Ohio National Bank, 
Washington, D. C; sec'y Cleveland National Fire Insurance Co.; 
member Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans, Modern Woodmen of 
America, Loyal Order of Moose, Woodmen of the World, Brooklyn 
Lodge, No. 454, F. & A. M.; member Tippecanoe Club. 

BROWN, Paul J.; automobile business; born, Zanesville, O., Nov. 
10, 1864; public school education; started with The Jacob Smith 
Carriage & Wagon Co., 1875-1879; then went to Pittsburgh in vari- 
ous carriage and wagon shops; came to Cleveland in 1890; foreman 
for The Jacob Hoffman Wagon Co., 1890-1898; then went to Cin- 
cinnati with The O. Armleder Co. until 1901; returned to Cleveland 
and formed partnership with firm of Broc Carriage & Wagon Co.; 
upon incorporation of firm, in 1903, elected vice pres. and gen. mgr. ; 
in 1908, sold his interest and retired to the farm; in 1909, formed 
the Brown Auto Carriage Co., pres. and gen. mgr.; member I. O. 
O. F. and Automobile Club; Independent in politics. 

BROWN, T. Dave; real estate; born, Cleveland, Sept. 3, 1852; of 
Scotch descent; son of James and Anna Black Brown; educated, 
public schools, Cleveland, 1884-1890, in charge of Case Library and 
Building; member City Council, 1885-1886; elected assessor of real 
property for the City of Cleveland, 1890; in 1896, appointed by 
Gov. William McKinley to fill out an unexpired term as county 
commissioner of Cuyahoga County, and later elected to the same 
office; pres. The Commonwealth Eealty & Building Co., The Eagle 
Storage and Moving Co.; director The Brooklyn Building & Loan 
Association; for the past several years he has devoted his time to 
extensive private interests and in travel both at home and abroad; 
was one of the organizers and first pres. of the Tippecanoe Repub- 
lican Club; member B. P. O. E. and K. P. orders; has had an 
honorable career in business and politics and in the social life of 
the city; married, and lives with his family at 6515 Cedar Avenue. 

BRUCE, Frank F.; jobber and mfr.; born, Cleveland, July 4, 
1858; son of Eli and Caroline Eldridge Bruce; educated. Western 
Reserve University (Hudson, O.), 1881; married, Oxford, N. Y., 
Sept. 9, 1890, Sarah V. W. Perkins; one son and one daughter; 
pres. and treas. The Bruce & West Mfg. Co.; member of vestry, 
St. Paul's P. E. Church; member of Troop A seven years. 

BRUCH, Frederick W.; manufacturer; born, Feb. 22, 1852, Rhine, 
Bavaria, Germany; son of Karl F. and Sophia Zeppn Bruch; public 
school education; married, Cleveland, Sept. 29, 1888, Miss Emma 
Mohrman; issue, Alfred E., Karl F., Ethel S., and Edward P., 
learned and followed the machinists trade until 1880; became 



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associated with Glaus Greve and Daniel Luehers, establishing the 
Acme Machinery Co., business conducted as a partnership until 
1892; then incorporated as The Acme Machinery Co., became pres. 
of the company at that time, and still occupies that position; pres. 
The Kraus Furniture Co., Adams Eealty Co., organizer and director 
The Cleveland Machinery Co.; director the State Banking & Trust 
Co.; vice pres. Standard Fullers Earth Co. of America, at Mobile, 
Ala.; member Forest City Lodge, No. 388, F. & A. M.; Webb 
Chapter, E. A. M.; Cleveland Council, E. & S. M.; Oriental Com- 
mandery, K. T.; and Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; member 
Colonial Club; Eepublican. 

BRUDNO, Ezra Selig; author; born in Lithuania, May 28, 1877; 
son of Issac and Hannah (Model) Brudno; attended Adelbert Col- 
lege (Western Eeserve University), 1896-1897; at Yale, 1898-1900, 
reading law and at same time pursuing academic studies; finished 
law studies at Western Eeserve University, 1900; unmarried; 
began practice of law in Cleveland, 1901; assistant district attorney 
since 1909; Eepublican. Author: The Fugitive, 1904; The Little 
Conscript, 1905; The Tether, 1908. Contributor to magazines. 

BRUNO, Ernst W.; contractor; born Port Huron, Mich., Dec. 
4, 1876; son of William F. and Theresa Orttenberger Bruno; public 
school, high school and business college education in Port Huron, 
Mich.; married, Port Huron, Mich., June 26, 1902, Marie Unger; 
started business with his father, who was a contractor; spent two 
years ranching at Alburquerque, N. Mex., and Eagle Pass, Texas; 
on coming north was associated with the Michigan Telephone Co., 
and came to Cleveland in April, 1896, for the Cleveland Telephone 
Co.; then with Cleveland Illuminating Co. until 1906, in charge 
of underground construction; then started in general contracting, 
paving, sewer, concrete and water mains work; member Biglow 
Lodge, F. & A. M., Thatcher Chapter, E. A. M.; member Athletic 
Club. Eecreations: Hunting Big Game, all Out-door Sports and 
Motoring. 

BRUSH, Charles Francis; scientist; born at Euclid, O., Mar. 17, 
1849; son of Isaac Elbert and Delia Wisner (Phillips) Brush; 
M. E., University of Michigan, 1869; Ph. D., Western Eeserve, 1880; 
(hon. M. S., University of Michigan, 1899; LL. D., Western Ee- 
serve, 1900; Kenyon, 1903); married Mary E. Morris, of Cleveland, 
Oct, 6, 1875; chem. expert, Cleveland, 1870-1873; iron and ore 
commn. mcht., 1873-1877; pioneer investigator of electric lighting 
and invented the Brush electric arc light, 1878, now in general 
use; also the storage battery (fundamental invention) and other 
devices essential to modern electrical engineering; founder the 
Brush Electric Co.; credited with "The Practical Development of 
Electric Arc Lighting" (Eumford medal); pres. Cleveland Arcade 
Co. since 1887; Linde Air Products Co. since 1907; Trustee Western 
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School of Art, Lake View Cemetery; corporator Case School Ap- 
plied Science; member Sinking Fund Commission of Cleveland; 
Chevalier, Legion of Honor, France, 1881; Eumford medal, Am. 
Acad. Arts and Sciences, 1899; member Am. Philos. Soc; fellow, 
A. A. A. S.; life member Brit. Ass'n, Ohio State Board Commerce, 
Cleveland Chamber Commerce (pres. 1909-1910); Am. Soc. Mech. 
Engrs. ; member Am. Inst. Elec. Engrs., Archaeol. Inst. America, 
Am. Hist. Ass 'n, Nat. Electric Light Ass 'n, Franklin Inst., Phila., 
Am. Chem. Soc. Clubs: University (New York), Country, Euclid, 
University, Union (pres. 1897-1898), Mayfield (Cleveland), Winous 
Point Shooting (pres. since 1895). 

BUEBIMAN, George J.; contracting plumber; born, Cleveland, 
Aug. 28, 1886; son of G. H. and Anna Kuper Buerman; graduated 
from St. Stephen's Parochial school in 1900; attended St. Ignatius' 
College three years; classical course; married, Cleveland, Aug. 22, 
1911, Ida P. Beeoli; started in the plumbing, sewering and gas 
fitting business in 1908, under the firm name of Buerman & Mayer; 
continued until 1911, when he bought Mr. Mayer's interest; firm 
now Geo. J. Buerman; member C. M. B. A. Eecreations: Baseball 
and Bowling. 

BULKLEY, Robert Johns; congressman; born, Cleveland, Oct. 8 
1880; son of Charles Henry and Eoberta (Johns) Bulkley; A. B. 
Harvard, 1902, A. M., 1906; law student, Harvard, and at Cleve 
land; married Katharine Pope, of Helena, Mont., Feb. 17, 1909 
admitted to bar, 1905, and began practice at Cleveland; member 
law firm of Bulkley & Inglis, Sept. 1, 1909- ; member 62d Congress 
(1911-13); 21st Ohio Dist.; Democrat; trustee University School, 
Cleveland. Clubs: Union, Hermit, University, Tavern and Country 
(Cleveland), Harvard (New York), Montana (Helena). 

BUNTS, Frank Emory; surgeon; born, Youngstown, O., June 3, 
1861; son of William C. and Clara E. (Barnhisel) Bunts; gradu- 
ated U. S. Naval Academy, 1881; served U. S. N., 1881-1883; M. D., 
Western Eeserve Medical College, 1886; married, Harriet E. Taylor, 
of Cleveland, Oct. 29, 1888; prof, surgery Western Eeserve Medi- 
cal College, since 1893; fellow Am. Surg. Ass'n; member A. M. A., 
Societe Internat. de Chirurgie; Miss. Valley Med. Ass'n; Ohio 
State Med. Ass'n; Acad. Medicine, Cleveland; Nu Sigma Nu; 
Republican. Clubs: Union, University, Euclid (Cleveland); Army 
and Navy (Washington). 

BURDICK, Russell Emmett; merchant; born, Alfred, N. Y., 
May 28, 1848; son of Eussell W. and Malvina A. (Middaugh) Bur- 
dick; educated, Alfred University; married, Ashland County, O., 
May 24, 1874, Mary H. McCutchen; two daughters and one son; 
captain commanding Troop A, O. N. G., 1895; capt. 1st Ohio Vol. 
Cavalry, war with Spain, 1898; aid-de-camp to Gen. Horace Porter, 
1897; to Gen. G. M. Dodge, 1897; to Gen. J. F. Bell, 1909; pres. 
and treas. the Bowler & Burdick Co., jewelers; established, 1873. 



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BUBGEB, Fred; florist; born in Germany, July 24, 1866; son of 
Gottlieb and Karolina Wenz Burger; educated, public schools; 
married, Cleveland March 16, 1895; Katrina Greiner; issue, three 
children; with J. M. Gasser Co., 1892 to 1893; started in business 
as florist in 1893; has continued in same location; designer and 
decorator; Forester Court Broadway, No. 1252; P. W. C, No. 220; 
member Florist Club. 

BUEKE, Thomas A.; surgeon; born, Cleveland, April 18, 1864; 
son of Thomas A. and Ellen Shannon Burke; A. B., Canisius Col- 
lege, 1885; A. M., same college, 1892; Western Eeserve Medical 
College, 1888; married, Cleveland, 1892, Lillian G. McNeil; three 
children; after graduating in medicine, received appointment as 
house surgeon at City Hospital; later assistant to supt. Cleveland 
State Hospital; 1890, appointed visiting physician to St. Alexis 
Hospital, and later to same position Charity Hospital; 1902, elected 
coroner Cuyahoga county; re-elected 1906 XT. S. pension examiner 
in President Cleveland's administration; has made three trips 
abroad to study in London and Vienna hospitals, devoted to 
diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat; director ear, nose and throat 
dept. Charity Hospital; member Cleveland Academy of Medicine, 
Ohio State Medical Ass'n, Am. Ass'n, Cleveland Athletic Ass'n. 

BUBKE, Vernon H.; attorney-at-law; born, Saybrook, O., Dec. 
22, 1865; son of John F. and Minerva C. Stewart Burke; educated, 
Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y., Stratton 's Business College, The 
University of Notre Dame; B. A., C. E., LL. B. degrees; married, 
Cleveland, Dec. 21, 1892, Matilda B. Hahn; one son, Vernon A. 
Burke, Jr.; Eepubliean; served on police bench by appointment; 
senator from Cuyahoga county, 1896-1900; vice chairman Cuya- 
hoga County Eepubliean Committee; has been a trial lawyer; 
pres. James F. Allen Contracting Co., Cleveland Smelting Co., Idle- 
wild Co.; sec'y Guest & Buell Co., Fleishman & Smith Co.; director 
The Cleveland Salt Co.; sec'y Crawford & Soper Co.; Bauck Con- 
tracting Co., Rice Bottling Works, The Olds-Oakland Co., etc.; 
member K. of P., and I. O. O. F., the Athletic, Willowick Country, 
and City Clubs. Recreations: Motoring, Hunting and Fishing. 

BURKHABT, Harry; florist; born, Cleveland, Oct. 9, 1885; son 
of Fred and Katherine Weber Burkhart; educated, public schools; 
married, Cleveland, 1909, Mary Wilhelm; two children; with The 
Westinghouse Co. in 1904, as moulder and coremaker; has been in 
the florist business one year; pres. and treas. The Burkhart Bro. 'a 
Co.; designer and decorator; member Modern Woodmen, and Florist 
Club, and Holy Name Church. Eecreation: Hunting. 

BURNHAM, Thomas Winston; mfr. and banker; born, Cleve- 
land, Jan. 22, 1844; son of Thomas and Maria Louisa White Burn- 
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Schenectady, N, Y.; degree of A. B.; married, Cleveland, Oct. 6, 
1869; Mary Kate Coll; two daughters, Mrs. G. W. Grandin and Mrs. 
J. P. Burton; pres. The Star Elevator Co. and The Kilby Mfg. 
Co.; director and chairman of the Board National City Bank; 
director The Cleveland Burial Case Co., Cleveland Union Stock 
Yards Co., Citizens' Savings & Trust Co. and F. H. Hill & Co., 
Chicago; member Union, University, Country, Roadside Clubs, 
Cleveland, and The University Club, Nev? York City; pres. of the 
Union Club of Cleveland, 1899 and 1900. Eecreations: Golf and 
Motoring. 

BURROWS, Charles William; born, Hollis, York County, Me., 
Dec. 21, 1849; son of Joseph W. and Mary Elizabeth Atkinson Bur- 
rows; graduated, U. S. Military Academy, 1870; served as 2d Lt., 
34 U. S. Art, 1870-1872; married, Lottie Thomas Mott, of Norwalk, 
Conn., Feb. 26, 1884; started, November, 1873, firm of Burrows 
Bros, (now The Burrows Bros. Co.), publishers and booksellers; 
Eepublican, member Ass'n of Graduates of U. S. Military Acad- 
emy; Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Soc. Colonial Wars. Clubs: 
Union, Euclid, Hermit, Athletic. Identified with movement to pro- 
cure one-cent letter postage. 

BURROWS, Creorge Humphrey; lawyer; born, Wakeman, O., 
May 18, 1863; son of Asa W. and Nancy Ann Humphrey Burrows; 
educated in Cleveland public schools and Eiverside Seminary, 
Wellsville, N. Y.; married, Cleveland, April 5, 1885, Ida Bell 
Folliett; issue, Ethel Ida, G. Howard; sec'y Cleveland Coal Ex- 
change, 1885-1886; sec'y Merchant's and Manufacturer's Exchange, 
1887-1897; practiced law from 1893; sec'y and gen'l mgr. Cleve- 
land Farm Development Co.; sec'y and director Chagrin River 
Land & Investment Co.; pres. and director the Geo. H. Burrows 
Development Co.; member firm of Burrows, Kraus & McMasters. 

BURTON, Charles Emerson; clergyman; born, Iowa, March 19, 
1869; son of John Henry and Jane A. Simons Burton; educated, 
Carleton College, A. B., 1895, M. A., 1898, Chicago Theological 
Seminary, B. D., 1898, Carleton College, D.D., 1911; married; 
Menoken, N. D., Oct. 17, 1898, Cora Viola King; issue, Dorothy 
Viola, Lyndon David, Malcolm King and Myron Simons; preached 
before and during college course in the missions and churches of 
the Congregational order of Minneapolis; spent summer vacations 
preaching in home missionary churches in Minnesota and North 
Dakota; pastor Puritan Church, Chicago, 1895-1898, Lyndale 
Church, Minneapolis, 1899-1909; associate pastor to Dr. Washing- 
ton Gladden, First Congregational Church, Columbus, O., 1909 and 
1910; began pastorate Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, March 1, 
1911; trustee Congregational Home Missionary Society, New York, 
Congregational Union, Cleveland, National Anti-Saloon League; 
former trustee of Carleton College and Chicago Theological Sem- 
inary; member Delta Sigma Rho (honor) Fraternity; member 
Business Men's Club, Y. M. C. A., and Congregational Club, Cleve- 



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land and vicinity (pres. 1913-1914); won oratorical honors of col- 
lege and state of Minnesota; interested in social and civic appli- 
cation of religion, helped organize Minneapolis Congregational 
Union, Council of Churches, Columbus, and Federated Churches, 
Cleveland. 

BURTON, Theodore Elijah; U. S, senator to March 3, 1915; born, 
Jefferson, O., Dec. 20, 1851; son of Eev. William and Elizabeth 
(Grant) Burton; A. B., Oberlin College, 1872, A. M. 1875; (LL. D., 
Oberlin, 1900, Dartmouth, 1907, Ohio University, 1907); unmarried; 
admitted to bar, 1875, and since in practice at Cleveland; member 
51st (1889-1891), and 54th to 61st (1895-1911) congresses; 21st 
Ohio Dist.; resigned from 61st Congress, March 4, 1909; U. S. 
senator, 1909-1915; chairman Inland Waterways Commission, 1906- 
1908; chairman National Waterways Commission; member National 
Monetary Commission; Kepublican nominee for mayor, Cleveland, 
1907; delegate Republican National convention, 1904, 1908 (placed 
William Howard Taft in nomination for the Presidency, Chicago, 
1908); pres. Grant Family Ass'n of the U. S. Clubs: Union, 
Eowfant (Cleveland), Metropolitan (Washington). Author: Finan- 
cial Crisis and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression, 
1902; Life of John Sherman, 1906; Corporations and The State, 
1911; pres. American Peace Society, 1911. 

BUSE, William; prop. Hof brau-Haus ; born, Sept. 1, 1865; Hep- 
pens, Oldenburg, Germany; in Cleveland since 1867; education, 
common and high schools; practical restauranteur; married Aug. 27, 
1889, Mary Fry; issue, one daughter, Margaret, Dec. 4, 1904; mem- 
ber Concordia Lodge, F. & A. M.; Hillman Chapter, Holyrood 
Commandery, Lake Erie Consistory; Cleveland Lodge, B. P. O. E.; 
Westwood Golf Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland Automo- 
bile Club. 

BUSHNELL, Thomas Hubbard; lawyer; born. Burton, O., Aug. 
17, 1856; son of Ebenezer and Julia Baldwin Bushnell; public 
school and university education, B. A. 1882, M. A., 1885, Western 
Reserve College (now Western Reserve University, Adelbert col- 
lege); married, Columbus, O., Oct. 23, 1889, Sophia Ballard; issue, 
five children; with Union Rolling Mill Company, this city, 1882- 
1885; admitted to bar, 1885; practiced law in Cleveland one year, 
in Hurley, Wis., 1886-1896; and in Cleveland since, except while 
judge of the Cuyahoga County Insolvency and Juvenile Court, 
during parts of 1904 and 1905; member Cleveland, Ohio, and Amer- 
ican Bar Associations; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Cleveland Chamber 
of Commerce; Union, University and Country Clubs; trustee Cleve- 
land Humane Society. 

OADWAIiLADEE, Starr; settlement worker; born, Howard, N. 
Y., June 11, 1869; son of Joseph Shepard and Anne E. (Starr) 
Cadwallader; A.. B., Hamilton College, 1893, A. M., 1896; graduate 
Union Theological Seminary, 1896; married Harriet E. Gomph, of 



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Utica, N. Y., July 30, 1896; was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work, 
1887, 1888 and 1890; teacher in private schools, 1892-1895; or- 
dained Presbyterian ministry, 1896; head worker Goodrich Social 
Settlement, Cleveland, 1896-1903 (trustee since 1903, sec'y since 
1906); school director of Cleveland, 1902-1905; sec 'y board of 
trustees, Cleveland School of Art, 1905-1908; supt. of sanitation, 
1908-1910; pres. Social Service Club; treas. Cleveland Home Gar- 
dening Ass'n; member executive committee Cleveland Associated 
Charities; member Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Alpha Delta 
Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. Club: University. Contributor to maga- 
zines. 

CAINE, Frank C; contractor; born, Cleveland, June 15, 1863; 
son of William C. and Jane Caley Caine; educated, Cleveland pub- 
lic schools and Spencerian Business College; married, Chicago, 111., 
Nov. 10, 1891, Gertrude C. Coffman; with Geo. Worthington Co. 
ten years; organized saddlery and harness business, wholesale hard- 
ware three years, organized concrete business in 1895, and National 
Concrete Fireproofing Co., 1898; pres. The National Concrete Fire- 
proofing Co.; pres. and treas. The Frank C. Caine Co.; director 
and vice pres. The Square Eealty Co.; same offices in The Seneca 
Eealty Co.; director and treas. The Eiver Land Co.; director The 
Nock Fire Brick Co.; member Union, Athletic, Colonial, and Coun- 
try Clubs. Eecreation: Golf. 

CALEY, Frederick Henry; sec'y Cleveland Automobile Club; 
born, Hudson, June 2, 1873; son of Frederick P. and Clara S. 
Palmer Caley; educated, public and high school and Ohio Northern 
University, Ada, O.; married, New York, Nov. 27, 1913, Harriet E. 
Weffier; 1st Lieut. 4th Ohio Infantry, 1902-1910; active Eepubli- 
can; with National Eepublican committee two campaigns; State 
Insurance Dept., 1903-1906; office sec'y of State, 1906-1908; Ohio 
State Eegistrar of Automobiles, 1908-1911; has been successful in 
organizing automobile clubs throughout Ohio; mgr. The Cleveland 
Automobile Show Co.; member Y. M. C. A., Akron Lodge, No. 547 
I. O. O. F., Akron-Canton, two Patriarchs Militant; member Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Cleveland Automobile Club, Cleveland Auto- 
mobile Country Club. Eecreation: Motoring. 

CALHOUN, Newton S.; pres. and treas. The Johnson Jennings 
Co.; born in Connecticut, Feb. 12, 1855; son of William E. and Al- 
mira Tracy Calhoun; educated, Suffield Academy, in Connecticut, 
and Brown University, Providence, E. I., graduating in 1879, 
degree of A. M.; married, Cleveland, 1884, Miss Caroline Jen- 
nings; issue, one son, Tracy Jennings, born in 1885, and on© 
daughter, Carol, now Mrs. Lyman Narten; business career, taught 
school two years in the Providence high school; studied law while 
teaching and summers; one year in office of Judge Tillinghast in 
Providence; came to Cleveland in the fall of 1882; in 1883, began 
law practice with the late A. C. Caskey; in 1896, became treas. of 
the Johnson- Jennings Co., and in 1905, was made pres.; also vice 



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pres. and treas. the Eoyal Tourist Car Co.; member Chamber of 
Commerce and Athletic Club; Kepublican; member Pilgrim Con- 
gregational Church. 

CALLOW, William George; merchant; born, Hudson, O., Nov. 23, 
1862; father's name, Frank Callow; educated, Cleveland public 
schools; married. New York City, Dec. 25, 1900, Alice M. Burns; 
pres. and treas. The Kennedy Co.; sec'y and treas. The Euclid 
Huron Improvement Co.; member Athletic Club. 

CAMPBELL, John C; contractor and builder; born, Scotland, 
July 2, 1863; son of Eobert and Mary Caird Campbell; common 
school education in Scotland; married, Scotland, Oct. 15, 1884, 
Jane N. Macmanis; has been in the building business all his life, 
learning the joiners" trade in Dundee, Scotland; traveled exten- 
sively in America, working at the joiners' trade; entered into the 
general Contractor's business in Cleveland, in 1907, has lived in 
Cleveland 20 years; member Order of Scottish Clans, Knights of 
Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose; has been a U. S. citizen for twenty- 
five years; believes in honest and square dealing. Eecreation: 
Motoring. 

CANFIELD, G-eorge R.; oil business; born, Mantua, O., Dec. 1, 
1857; son of George W. and Jannette L. Merryfield Canfield; edu- 
cation, country and Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, 
Nov. 11, 1879, Ella M. Summouds; issue, Charles H. Grace Brewster, 
Gilbert B.; first wife died 1884; married, Oct. 19, 1887, Mrs. Lucy 
E. Long (nee Quayle) ; 1877, began work as clerk for The Eepublic 
Eefining Co.; became supt. of plant, which was later absorbed by 
The Standard Oil Co.; remained with firm as supt. until 1887; 
organized The Canfield Oil Co.; pres. The Canfield Oil Co. and 
The Canfield Eealty Co.; pres. The Chester Eealty Co.; vice pres. 
The Columbia Savings & Loan Co.; pres. The Canfield Tank Lines; 
vice. pres. The South End Eealty Co.; member Newburg Lodge, 
No. 379, Baker Chapter, Holyrood Commandery, Knights Temp- 
lars; member Euclid Club. Favorite recreations: Beading and 
Motoring. 

CANNIFF, W. H.; railroad business; born, Litchfield, Mich., Oct. 
22, 1847; business career, entered railway service in 1863; until 1865 
was night watchman on the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana 
E. E., at Osseo, Mich.; February 1865, to August 1868, was agt. of 
the same road at Trenton, Mich.; August 1868, to August 1872, 
joint agt. of The Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana, and 
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Eailways, at Salem Crossing, 
Ind.; August 1872, to December 1879, trackmaster of the Kendall- 
ville Division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern E. E.; De- 
cember 1879, to November 1880, trackmaster of the Chicago Divi- 
sion; November 1880, to November 1889, supt. of the Lansing 
Division, including Detroit, Hillsdale & Southwestern and Ft. 
Wayne & Jackson railroads, November 1889 to January 1892, asst. 
general supt.; January 1892, to March 1896, gen. supt.; March 



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1896, to May, 1898, gen. mgr., all on the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern E. K., May, 1898, up to the present time, pres, of The 
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Eailway Co., at Cleveland; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce, Union, Clifton, Koadside and Country 
Clubs, of Cleveland, and Chicago Traffic Club and Chicago Asso- 
ciation of Commerce. 

CAELETON, Charles Henry; lumber dealer; born St. Clair, Mich., 
Sept. 18, 1859; son of George W. and Emeline P. Sjiiith Carleton; 
educated, high school, St. Clair, Mich., and Busines^ College, Val- 
paraiso, Ind.; married, Wayne, Mich., Jan. 3, 1889, Janet L. Mor- 
rison; three children, George M., Margaret and Jean; after leaving 
school, entered the employ of B. W. Jenks & Co. in a lumbering 
operation near Grand Eapids, Mich.; came to Cleveland in May, 
1885, and entered the employ of N. Mills & Co.; secured an interest 
in the firm the following year, and has been a member of the 
above firm and its successors up to date; pres. The Mills-Carletou 
Co.; treas. The Eddy Eoad Allotment Co.; vice pres. The Pearl St. 
Eealty Co.; director Lumber Underwriters of New York; member 
The Euclid and Lumbermen's Clubs. Eecreations: Florida Fishing. 

OABPENTER, Frank B.; atty. and general counsel The N. Y., 

C. & St. L. E. E. Co.; born, Oberlin, O., July 17, 1866; son of John 

D. and Charity G. Lester Carpenter; educated, Oberlin College, 
A. B., 1888, and Columbia Law School; married, Morrison, 111., 
June 3, 1890, Edna Woods; one daughter, Florence, and two sons, 
John and Edward; 1901 to 1912, assistant general counsel for The 
N. Y., C. & St. L. Ey. Co.; in 1912, appointed general counsel for 
the same road; administrator and trustee of the estate of W. J. 
Gordon, since 1903, succeeding Hon. Samuel E. Williamson, at the 
time of the latter 's death; general counsel N. Y. C. & St. L. E. E. 
Co.; pres. The W. J. Gordon Eealty Co.; director The Edgewater 
Land Co., and The Goshen Coal Co.; member auxiliary board. The 
Guardian Savings and Trust Co.; member Ohio Bar Ass'n, Union 
and Mayfield Clubs. 

OABEEL, Moses Gray; dist. passenger agt. B. & O. E. E.; born, 
Fulton county, O., June 4, 1854; son of William P. and Elizabeth 
Waite Carrel; educated at High School and College, Hillsdale, 
Mich.; married, Beading, Mich., June 8, 1875, Jennie E. Bradley; 
two daughters and one son; telegraph operator, freight and ticket 
agt. L. S. & M. S. E. E., 1870 to 1880; ticket agt. Union Depot, 
Cleveland, 1880 to 1891; sec'y and treas. Merchant's Bank & 
Storage Co., Cleveland, 1891 to 1893; mgr. and editor railroad maga- 
zine, "The Station Agent," and financial editor the Cleveland 
Press, 1893-1894; general passenger agt. C. L. & W. E. E., 1894 to 
1904; division passenger agt. B. & O. E. E., 1904 to date; director 
and sec'y for several years to date Masonic Temple Ass'n, Mer- 
chant's Banking & Storage Co.; sec'y and treas. W, M. Meridian 
Lodge, F. & A. M., 1911-1912; E. M. Commander, Holyrood Com- 
mandery. No. 32, K. T., 1991-1992; P. M., Bahurim Council, A. A. 



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S. R., Potentate, Al Koran Temple, N. M. S., 1894-1895; honorary 
33d°, Supreme Council, A, A. S. R., Northern Jurisdiction, U. S. A.; 
organizer and sec'y International Ticket agts. Ass'n, 1888 to 1892. 

CABBOIiL, Frank P.; coal business; born, Cleveland, March 2, 
1874; educated in the public and parochial schools of Cleveland; 
at the age of 18, learned machinists' trade; worked in the Lake 
Shore shops until May, 1899; then became engaged in the coal 
business, and has been successful in building up a good trade; his 
grandfather, the late Peter Goldrick, was one of the pioneer coal 
merchants of Cleveland; his name is engraved in the City Hall 
as one of the Centennial Council, 1876, having been elected the 
representative of the old fifth ward in the spring of 1875. 

CASE, Eckstein; sec'y and treas. Case School of Applied Science; 
born, Carlyle, 111., July 9, 1858; educated public schools in 1878; 
entered United States Military Academy, at West Point; two years 
there; in 1881, came to Cleveland; studied law under the direction 
of Judge J. E. IngersoU and Judge Rufus P. Ranney; entered law 
department. University of Michigan, graduating in 1883; admitted 
to the bar, but never engaged in active practice; member of school 
council 1903 to 1905; member Rowfant and University Clubs; and 
Masonic Fraternity; Republican, five years member of the execu- 
tive committee of the Municipal Ass'n. 

C ASHMAN, William J.; lawyer; born, Montpelier, Vt., Oct. 14, 
1872; son of John and Jane Byrne Cashman; educated, St. Mary's 
College, A. B., 1893; Catholic University of America, LL. B.; 1896, 
Catholic University of America; LL. M., 1897; St. Mary's College, 
LL. D., 1912; married, Cleveland, Jan. 25, 1889, Aloise Grasselli; 
issue, William, Eugene, Aloise and Frances; admitted to the bar, 
Boston, Mass., May 25, 1898, Cleveland, 1901; Brady & Cashman; 
1905, The Grasselli Chemical Co., legal dept.; director The Grasselli 
Chemical Co.; member Knights of Columbus, Athletic, Mayfield, 
University, and Chemists' Clubs, Chamber of Commerce. Recrea- 
tion: Golf. 

CASSIDY, James H.; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, Oct. 28, 
1869; son of James H. and Mary G. Brown Cassidy; educated, 
Cleveland public schools and Cleveland Law School, LL. B.; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Nov. 24, 19''3, Elizabeth Handigers; sec'y Rivers 
and Harbors Committee of the House of Representatives, 1902- 
1909; member of Congress 21st Ohio District, 1909-1911; member 
Cleveland City River and Harbor Commission, 1911-1912; pres. 
Cleveland City River and Harbor Commission, 1912; receiver of 
The Standard Contracting Co., 1911; partner Lang, Cassidy & 
Copeland; member Ohio Bar Ass'n, National Geographical Society, 
Masonic Order, Athletic, Colonial, Western Reserve, and Tippe- 
canoe Clubs. 

OAUGHUN, Thomas; insurance; born, Cleveland, June 21, 1876; 
son of John Coughlin, a native of Ireland; educated, parochial 



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schools of Cleveland and St. Mary's College of Dayton, O.; mar- 
ried, June 21, 1889, Miss Mary Agnew; issue, three children; en- 
tered the insurance business in 1900; appointed City Auditor of 
Cleveland in February, 1907; and elected to succeed himself in 
November, 1907; in 1910, left public service, becoming senior 
member of the firm of Coughlin & Lauorson, district mgrs. The 
Standard Accident Insurance Co., of Detroit, Mich.; in 1898, elected 
to the City Council; in 1901, elected to the General Assembly; 
member Knights of Columbus, Chamber of Commerce, and Build- 
ers' Exchange; a trustee of the Sinking Fund of the City; sec'y 
Democratic County Executive Committee. 

CAUIiKINS, David Lee; insurance; born, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
Nov. 10, 1869; son of John Guernsey and Nancy Lee Caulkins; 
educated at the University of Chattanooga; married, Ludlow, Ky., 
May 29, 1893, Dora Leota Hoover; one son, Robert Sharp Caul- 
kins, born Oct. 23, 1897; district chief railway mail service, Louis- 
ville & Cincinnati, for seven years; prior to coming to Cleveland, 
in 1905, general agt. for Northeastern Ohio for The Connecticut 
Mutual Life Insurance Co.; since 1905, trustee City Eescue Mis- 
sion; elder Calvary Presbyterian Church; member Chamber of 
Commerce. 

CHAMBERLAIN, WilUam W.; shoe mfr.; born, April 19, 1859, 
Cleveland; son of Norman W. and Mary Elizabeth Hogadom 
Chamberlain; public and high school; married, Boston, Mass., Jan. 
4, 1905, Carrie G. Simpson; eight years with the pioneer shoe firm 
of Childs & Co.; one year with W. E. Schmitz & Co.; wholesale 
boots and shoes, Pittsburgh; with S. L. Pierce & Co., Cleveland, 
since 1886; now sales manager; director Union Savings & Loan Co.; 
member Cleveland Chamber of Commerce; Euclid Club; Cleveland 
Athletic Club. Eecreatious: Baseball and Motoring, 

CHAMBERLAIN, Charles D.; attorney-at-law; born, Warrens- 
ville, O., Oct. 8, 1854; son of Charles D. and Eosetta H. Marks 
Chamberlain; married, Bedford, O., Oct. 12, 1873, Estella V. Tryon; 
issue, Charles W., Alpha Beatrice, and Carl D.; general counsel for 
The National Petroleum Ass 'n, an organization of independent re- 
finers of petroleum in the U. S. ; member Cleveland Bar Ass'n, and 
American Society of Jurisprudence; member Summit Chapter, No. 
74, E. A. M., and Bedford Lodge No. 375, F. & A. M. 

CHAMBERLAIN, Oliver N.; architect; born, Portsmouth, O., 
Oct. 10, 1882; son of Irwin and Mary J. Finy Chamberlain; edu- 
cated, common schools, Portsmouth, O., and private instructor at 
Columbus, O.; married, Sandusky, July 22, 1905, Carrie lona Rich- 
ards; one child; ten years work at practical construction work; 
two years in the general contracting business, in Cleveland; six 
years a practicing architect, in Cleveland, doing a general line of 
work; member Lakewood Chamber of Commerce. Eecreations: 
Baseball and Bowling. 



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CHAMP, Joseph H.; vice pres. and gen. mgr. The Bishop-Bab- 
cock Co.; born, Cleveland, Oct. 1, 1857; public school education; 
learned the plumbing trade and worked at it from 1873 to 1883; 
then went with The Bishop-Babcock Co.; became a member of the 
company and was elected to present position in 1895; pres. The 
Julier Baking Co., 1902; pres. the Board of Trustees of St. Clair 
Hospital; organized the Cleveland Savings Bank Co.; pres. one 
year, then sold the business; director of Standard Welding Co., 
and interested in a number of corporations; K. T., Mason, Mystic 
Shriner; member Century, Colonial and Euclid Clubs; and Eush- 
more Club, St. Clair Flats. Eepublican. 

CHAMPNEY, William P.; vice pres. and treas. The Eberhard 
Mfg. Co.; born, Cleveland, May 22, 1850; son of William Story and 
Julia Pomeroy Cunningham; married, Cleveland, Feb. 23, 1882, 
Clara F. Pitts; issue, Bessie Coe and William P., Jr.; member Union 
and Country Clubs. 

CHANDLER, Francis M.; lawyer; bom, Eichfield, O., May 3, 
1851; son of Joel Alonzo and Martha M. Buck Chandler; educated, 
common schools and Eichfield, O., Academy; married, Eichfield, O., 
Feb. 2, 1876, Ellie May Barney; issue, one son, C. DeForest; now 
captain Signal Corps, U. S. A. and commandant Army Aviation 
School; married, Cleveland, April 29, 1891, Mary G. Mahon; issue, 
Frances M., Jr., Dorothy Gertrude; admitted to Ohio bar in 1883; 
practiced law with Frank N. Wilcox (Chandler & Wilcox) until 
1887; resumed law practice 1909; deputy clerk Cuyahoga County 
Common Pleas Court 1876-1883; deputy county recorder Cuyahoga 
County, 1886-1887; chief clerk Cuyahoga County Probate Court, 
1888-1900; sec'y Eepublican County Executive Committee 1891, 
1892, 1893; chairman, 1895; sec'y Lincoln Eepublican League, 1898- 
1899; U. S. marshal Northern Ohio district, 1900-1909; vice pres. 
Hougn Bank & Trust Co., pres. National Advertising Co.; member 
State and Cleveland Bar Ass'n, Commercial Law League of 
America, New England Society of the Western Eeserve; Early 
Settlers Ass'n; Eichfield Ass'n, Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M.; 
member Chamber of Commerce. 

CHAPIN, Fred Howard; face brick mfg.; iH.-n, Iowa, April 11, 
1875; son of Fred Wallace and Eliza Pauly Chapin; grammar and 
high school education in Clarksville, la.. Highland Park Normal, 
Des Moines, la., University of Minnesota; married, Minneapolis, 
Minn., June 7, 1899, Helen N. Lakue; leaving college in 1894, was 
asst. city clerk of city of Minneapolis four years, resigning to 
accept position with Minneapolis branch, Hydraulic Press Brick 
Co.; gen'l sales mgr., St. Louis, 1905; appointed vice pres. and 
Ohio mgr., June, 1909, with headquarters in Cleveland; vice pres. 
and mgr. Hydraulic Press Brick Co.; director Owners Garage Co., 
and Commercial Economy Co.; member Mayfleld Country and 
Hermit Clubs; Mason. 



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CHAUD, WlUiam P.; real estate; born, Prince Albert, Ont., Oct. 
28, 1846; son of James J. and Ann Parry Chard; very little edu- 
cation; obliged to go to work when 12 years of age; married, in 
1892, to Miss Mary Hawkins; for 33 years an employee of the 
Lake Shore Eailroad; now in the real estate business; treas. Brook- 
lyn Building and Loan Ass'u; Eepublican; member of Council, one 
term, as alderman; when the board was established, member of fire 
committee in 2nd District; deputy director of Public Works, for 
4 years, under Robert E. McKisson; member Tippecanoe and West- 
ern Reserve Clubs, and Union League Club; member Tyrian Lodge, 
No. 370, A. F. & A, M., and other Masonic bodies; member Mem- 
orial Post, G. A. R., and Elks Lodge, No. 18. 

UHARLESWORTH, David; florist; born in England, April 1, 
1843; son of William and Hannah Haywood Charlesworth; educated, 
national schools of England and St. Augustine's College, Canter- 
bury, Eng.; married in England to Miss Elizabeth Fawcett; issue, 
4 children, 3 living; when still a boy, worked on the Lundy estate; 
identified with the florists' trade in Yorkshire, Eng., for 7 years; 
became an instructor in Lee's Reformatory schools; in 1867, asst. 
of St. Clement's Parish, Leeds, Yorkshire, for 2 years; in 1869, 
came to the U. S. and direct to Cleveland; removed to Tennessee, 
and engaged in the cotton business; returned to Cleveland, and 
devoted time to the florist business; for 5 years gardener at New- 
burg Asylum; laid out the present beautiful grounds; for 4 years 
member of the firm of C. W. Schofield & Co.; purchased partner's 
interest, and established the present firm of D. Charlesworth & 
Son; Knight Templar Mason; member Florist Club. Recreation; 
Work. 

CHASE, diaries W.; trustee of The Estate of Edwin Cowles; 
born, Edinburg, O., Aug. 8, 1846; son of Charles W. and Eliza 
Brown Chase; attended public school in Portage county, O., and 
High School at Newton Falls, O.; married, Cleveland, Aug. 1, 1872, 
Almira F. Cowles; one daughter, Helen (Mrs. E. C. Bassett); treas. 
of the City, April, 1895-1899; in clothing and men's furnishing 
business from 1870 to 1890, at No. 15 Public Square; director 
Chamber of Commerce, 1905-1906; pres. of The Cleveland Leader 
Co., 1901-1905; sec'y, treas. and director The Electric Smelting & 
Aluminum Co.; sec'y and director The W. B. Davis Co.; director 
The Bruce & West Mfg. Co.; trustee The Society for Savings; 30 
years clerk of the Second Presbyterian Church Society; elder 
Second Presbyterian Church; member of The National Union, and 
for many years a director and at intervals treas. and vice pres. 
of the Y. M. C. A.; member Union and Tippecanoe Clubs; summer 
home at Cayuga, N. Y., the homestead property of Mrs. Chase's 
mother, the late Mrs. Edwin Cowles, who was born and raised 
there; she was the daughter of the late Judge Mosley Hutchinson. 

CHASE, William Wayne, sec 'y White Sewing Machine Co. ; born, 
Geauga county, O., Nov. 19, 1872; son of Charles E. and Annette 
S. Ellis; educated in Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, 



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Sept. 12, 1893, Edna E. Thomas; issue, Kathryn, Eussell, Charles; 
married, Cleveland, March 5, 1907, Eeba Neff; issue, Euth, June; 
began work with White Sewing Machine Co., as bookkeeper, May, 
1892; became sec'y, 1905; member Chamber of Commerce, Cleve- 
land Credit Men 's Ass 'n, Archwood Congregational Church, Brook- 
lyn lodge F. & A. M.; Webb Chapter, E. A. M. 

CHESBRO, Ellis Jones; dentist; born, Cleveland, Dec. 25, 1868; 
son of George W. and Miss Boyce Chesbro; educated, Willoughby 
High School, Allegheny College, A. B.; University of Pennsylvania, 
D. D. S.; married, Washington, D. C, May 9, 1906, Eugenna 
C. Davis; one son; member Northern Ohio Dental Ass'n and Phi 
Delta Theta Fraternity. 

CHESTNUTT, Charles Waddell; lawyer and author; born, Cleve- 
land, June 20, 1858; son of Andrew J. and Maria Chestnutt; edu- 
cated, public schools Cleveland and Fayetteville, N. C; began 
teaching at the age of 16 years and for 9 years taught in the 
schools of Fayetteville, N. C; at the age of 23, became principal of 
State Normal School, at Fayetteville; in 1884, spent a number of 
months in newspaper writing in New York City; began business 
life in Cleveland as a shorthand reporter; employed as such in the 
Cleveland Courts; studied law with the late Samuel E. William- 
son; admitted to the bar in 1887; more widely known as the 
author of "The Conjure Woman," "The Wife of His Youth, and 
Other Stories," "Life of Frederick Douglas in Beacon Biogra- 
phies," "The House Behind the Cedars," "The Marrow of Tra- 
dition" and "The Colonel's Dream." 

CHIIiDS, Ljmian W.; physician; bom, Lee, HI., Oct. 1, 1867; son 
of Charles and Ann Eliza Smith Childs; graduate, Illinois State 
Normal University, 1890, at Western Eeserve Medical College, 1894, 
studied in University of Vienna, 1899-1900; married, Waterloo, 
la., 1902, Colene C. Hogg; issue, Evelyn L., Frances B., Eleanor M., 
Lyman W., Jr.; member sanitation committee, Chamber of Com- 
merce, for three years; instrumental in introduction of medical 
inspection in Cleveland public schools; introduced first fresh air 
school in Cleveland in 1911; house physician, City Hospital, 1894; 
medical examiner, Cleveland Public Schools, 1910-1913; member 
Cleveland Medical Society and American Medical Ass'n; Mason. 

CHISHOLM, 0. Kenneth; pres. Chisholm Shoe Co.; born, Ontario, 
1865; married, Ashtabula, O., 1899, Laura Ford; one daughter, 
Euth; 32d° Mason; member Cleveland Athletic, Mayfield, Country, 
Hermit, and Eotary Clubs. 

CHISHOLM, Stewart Henry; iron business; born, Montreal, 
Can., Dec. 21, 1846; son of Henry and Jean Allan Chisholm; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools; first marriage, 1872, Miss Harriet 
Kelly; issue, three sons; second marriage, 1900, to Mrs. H. P. 
Cord; Mrs. Chisholm died in 1901; entered the employ of Stone, 
Chisholm & Jones, later merged in the Cleveland Eolling Mill Co.; 



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then still later became a branch of the American Steel & Wire 
Co.; for a number of years vice pres. of the Cleveland Kolling Mill 
Co., and held same office in the American Steel & Wire Co.; pres. 
of the Chisholm-Moore Mfg. Co.; Eepublican; member Euclid Ave- 
nue Baptist Church; member Union, Country and Roadside Clubs, 
Cleveland; New York Yacht and Manhattan Clubs, New York. 

CHRISFORD, James W.; general contractor; born in England 
in 1862; came to United States in 1884; served in Spanish War 
with Battery A, O. L. A.; member Lakewood Village Council in 
1909, 1910, 1911; director of Public Service, City of Lakewood, in 
1912; Masonic affiliations, member Lakewood Lodge, Cunningham 
Chapter, Forest City Commandery; director and vice pres. Lake- 
wood Masonic Temple Co., 1913. 

CHRISTIAN, George Bridson; retired; born, Douglas, Isle of 
Man, June 23, 1846; son of Robert and Elizabeth Bridson Chris- 
tian; educated, Cleveland public schools and B. & S. Commercial 
College; married, Cleveland, Oct. 9, 1890, Eliza J. Worswick; one 
daughter, Elizabeth B. Christian; always voted with the Repub- 
lican party; never had public office; in the fall of 1863, became a 
member of the 23rd Ohio Militia, which, in April, 1864, was merged 
into the 150th Regiment, p.nd in Co. F served 100 days, mostly in 
the forts about Washington, being at Fort Totten at the time of 
the early raid, July 12, 1864; Jan. 6, 1864, started as cashier and 
bookkeeper with Rose & Prentis, pork packers; in February, 1876, 
at the organization of the Cleveland Provision Co., became treas. 
and acted in that capacity for about 30 years; was also a director 
of the company; member Grand Army of the Republic, Army and 
Navy Post, No. 187; trustee, clerk and deacon in the First Baptist 
Church; member Chamber of Commerce. Recreations: Farming 
and Kodaking. 

CLARK, Frank H.; electrotype business; bom, London, Eng., 
Apr. 17, 1869; son of Robert and Elizabeth Steeds Clark; public 
school education, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Jan. 10, 1900, 
Edith Handy Johnson; four sons, John Steeds Clark, born Nov. 16, 
1900; Robert Johnson Clark, born Sept. 30, 1903; Frank Henry 
Clark, born Jan. 23, 1908; William Handy Clark, born Dec. 12, 1909; 
The Eclipse Electrotype & Engraving Co. was established by 
Howard and Henry White in 1882; he became identified with the 
firm in 1887, and came into control in 1897; The Eclipse Electro* 
type & Engraving Co. moved to 2041 East 3rd street, in 1911, 
where they have what is known as the model plate making estab- 
lishment of the United States; the excellence of their products 
are known everywhere where fine printing is done; among notable 
work done by the concern is "The Encyclopedia Americana;" 
pres. The Eclipse Electrotype & Engraving Co.; director The Cleve- 
land Folding Machine Co.; Masonic Tyrian Lodge, No. 370, F. & 
A. M.; Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, R. A. M.; member Hermit, Ath- 
letic, Fellowcraft, Rotary, and Euclid Clubs. 



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CIiABK, Neil T.; dentist; born, Chippewa Lake, 0., 1887; son of 
Samuel and Mary Tylee Clark; educated at West High School, 
Cleveland, and University of Michigan (doctor of dental surgery); 
member Delta Sigma Delta (dental), Cleveland Dental Society, 
Ohio State Dental Cociety. 

CLABK, Roljert Henry; insurance; born, Cleveland, April 25, 
1865; son of Henry Freeman and Eliza Crowell Clark; education, 
St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., Eouni College, M. A.; married, 
Cleveland, 1887, Julia Wick Bissell; one daughter, Millicent Clark; 
1895-1898, Cleveland Trust Co.; since 1898, Casualty Insurance 
business; member firm Clark & Sprague; director Central National 
Bank; trustee Church Home and vestryman Trinity Cathedral; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Union, University, Country, Hunt 
and Automobile Clubs. 

CLABKE, Norris J.; born, Cleveland, Aug. 29, 1880; son of Jay 
M. and Lena D. Clarke; educated, Cleveland public schools and 
Central High School; married, Sewickley, Pa., June 24, 1907, Kath- 
erine Pearson; two daughters, Kathleen and Marguerite; entered 
the employ of The Bourne-Fuller Co. in 1897, as office boy and 
worked at all office positions, becoming salesman in 1904, and mgr. 
of their Pittsburgh office from 1906 to 1911 when he accepted his 
present position; sec'y The Upson Nut Co.; pres. Searight Supply 
Co., and sec'y Union Nut & Bolt Co.; member Union and Athletic 
Clubs, of Cleveland, and the Duquesne Club, of Pittsburg. 

CLARKE, John Hessin; lawyer; born, Lisbon, O., Sept. 18, 1857; 
son of John and Melissa Hessin Clarke; educated in public schools 
and by private tutors; entered Western Eeserve College, at Hudson, 
O., graduating in 1877; degree of M. A.; in 1880, studied law under 
his father's instruction, and was admitted to the bar in 1877; until 
1880, practiced law at Lisbon, O., in partnership with J. M. Mc- 
Vicker; purchased half interest in the Youngstown Weekly Vin- 
dicator; practiced law in Youngstown, and wrote political editor- 
ials for the Vindicator; sold interests in the paper in 1882; came 
to Cleveland in 1897, and entered the firm of Williamson & Cush- 
ing; firm became Williamson, Cushing & Clarke, specializing in 
railroad and corporation law; in 1898, appointed general counsel 
for the N. Y., C. & St. L. E. E. Co.; interested in other railroad 
corporations; in 1907, dissolved partnership with Mr. Cushing; 
prominent in state and national Democratic issues; three years 
trustee of the Cleveland Library Board; pres. of board last term 
of office; stockholder and contributor to the columns of the 
Youngstown Vindicator; mem})er American and State Bar Ass'ns, 



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Union, University, and Country Clubs, Cleveland, and the Univer- 
sity Club, New York City. 

CLARKE, Jay N.; sales agent; born, Sandusky, O., Aug. 19, 1855; 
son of William H. and Mary Newton Clarke; educated, Sandusky 
public schools; married, Cleveland, 1876, Pauline Doll; issue, two 
sons and one daughter, Mrs. H. G. Hock, Harry N. Clarke and 
Norris J. Clarke; is a practical mechanic, having worked many 
years as a machinist and toolmaker; was employed as supt. of 
shops for several years; then took up the sales dept., and has been 
a salesman for the last five years; have been sales agent in Cleve- 
land for The Bethlehem Steel Co. of South Bethlehem, Pa.; K. of 
P. Lodge No. 68; Criterion, Cleveland Commercial Travelers' Ass'n. 

CLEVELAND, Wmiam H.; plumber; born, England, 1851; com- 
mon school education; married, Cleveland, 1875, Mary Schade; two 
children; no public record, home man; started in business in 1897, 
and still continue at 7701 Cedar Ave.; has done city work for 
many years, has fitted many houses and business blocks in Cleve- 
land; always uses the best materials; his motto, "What is worth 
doing, is worth doing well;" honorary member and director Mas- 
ter Plumber 's Ass 'n. 

CLOUGH, aeorge Franklin; L. S. & M. S. R. R. Co.; born, 
Cleveland, March 27, 1876; son of John Johnson and Mary Rivers 
Lowman Clough; public school education, Cleveland; married, 
Cleveland, Nov. 22, 1898, Blanche Mildred Leither; two sons, 
Kenneth and Herbert; started with L. S. & M. S. R. R. Co. in 1894, 
as stenographer; was private sec'y to Freight Traffic Mgr., Gen- 
eral Traffic Mgr., and Chief clerk to General Freight Agt., to 
January, 1913; commercial agent L. S. & M. S. R. R. Co.; member 
Presbyterian Church. Recreations: Amateur Photography, Fish- 
ing, and Motoring. 

CLUM, Alfred; lawyer; born, Staten Island, Sept. 26, 1863; son 
of William and Elizabeth A. VanDusen Clum; educated, public 
schools, Washington, D. C, Law School, Columbian University, of 
Washington, D. C, now The George Washington University, of 
Washington, D. C, LL. B. at graduation and LL. M. at post 
graduate course; married, Washington, D. C, June 2, 1886, Lizzie 
W. Bohrer; three children; atty. for Village of East Cleveland, from 
May 1, 1901, to Dec. 31, 1909; solicitor for City of East Cleveland, 
from Jan. 1, 1912, to Dec. 31, 1913; b^gan Law practice in Cleve- 
land, April, 1890, and still continues in that profession; formed the 
partnership of Clum & Marty, Alfred Clum and George B. Marty, 
located at 1430 Leader-News Bldg.; director The Cyclone Woven 
Wire Fence Co.; professor of equity and evidence at Cleveland 
Law School of Baldwin University; trustee East Cleveland Pres- 
byterian Church; member Chamber of Commerce; Cleveland Council 



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of Sociology; associate member The Academy of Medicine of 
Cleveland; associate member the Cleveland Eeal Estate Board; 
member the City and Tippecanoe Clubs; taught school at High 
Bridge, N. Y., 1883-1884; by Civil Service examination, entered 
U. S. Pension Office at Washington, D. C, and was detailed as 
special examiner in 1885, and stationed in Ohio, coming to Cleve- 
land in 1886. 

COACH, Richard J.; Secret Service Co.; born, Galyeston, Texas, 
July 22, 1860; engaged in secret service work in 1877; established 
the R. J. Coach Detective Service in 1884, and incorporated in 
1904; has established offices throughout the United States and in 
all the principal cities in the world; pres. and gen. mgr. The R. J. 
Coach Secret Service Co.; member Chamber of Commerce. 

CODY, Henry Bissell; real estate; born, Painesville, O., Oct. 
12, 1866; son of Lindus and Sarah Amelia Farnsworth Cody; 
educated. Central High School and Western Reserve University, 
1891, A. B.; married, Cleveland, Feb. 26, 1895, Alma C. Canfield; 
one son, Louis Fancher Cody; pres. 1st Cleveland School Board; 
pres. Union vVoodhill Realty Co.; treas. Woodhill and E. Boulevard 
Realty Co.; trustee Woman's Hospital Ass'n, of Cleveland; 
member civic committee, Federated Churches; member Delta Tau, 
and Delta Upsilon College Fraternities; Chamber of Commerce and 
Euclid Club; owner and operator 28 allottments in and about 
Cleveland. 

COGAN, James Edward; physician; born in Canada, Dec. 15, 
1871; son James and Mary Daly Cogan; Phm. B., Toronto Uni- 
versity, 1892; M. S., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., 
1896; married, Cleveland, June 1, 1905, Katherine M. Gleason; two 
children; 1910 to 1913, member Cleveland Board of Health; visit- 
ing otologist and laryngologist to St. Alexis Hospital; assistant 
visiting ophthalmologist to Lakeside Hospital; secretary of Eye, 
Ear, Nose and Throat section of Academy of Medicine, 1910 to 
1912; member American Medical Ass'n, Ohio State Medical Ass'n, 
Cleveland Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Ophth- 
almology and Ota Larynogology; member Knights of Columbus and 
Elks. 

COHN, Albert A.; cloak mfr.; born. Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 10, 
1873; son of Herman and Kate Eiseman Cohn; common schools of 
Wheeling and Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Aug. 31, 1900, Alice 
May Newman; issue, Robert N., Margaret A., Janet E.; sec'y 
and treas. Cohn, Goodman Co.; director H. Cohn Clothing Co. and 
Cleveland and Sandusky Brewing Co.; member Excelsior and Oak- 
wood Clubs. 

COLEMAN, Frederick Albert; pres. the J. D. Smith Foundry 
Supply Co.; born, Ocenta, Wis., Feb. 26, 1869; son of Spencer A. and 
Mary Hart Coleman; graduated from Lehigh University, 1892, with 
degree of C. E.; married, Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 19, 1894, Luicie 



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Abbott; issue, Spencer Albert and Elizabeth Abbott; member 
American Society of Civil Engineering, Cleveland Engineering 
Society, Zeta Psi fraternity and University Club. 

COLLACOTT, Charles M.; Cleveland Trust Co., Eeal Estate 
Dept.; born, Cleveland, Dec. 18, 1881; pon of Charles C. and Almyra 
Hicks Collacott; educated, Shaw Academy, East Cleveland, and 
Glenville High School, graduating there; married, Cleveland June 
18, 1903, Florence Jessie Sprul-s; one son, and two daughters; 
asst. sec'y and treas. the Fairmount Savings Bank Co., 1901-1904, 
1904 to date with the Cleveland Trust Co. as Loan Clerk and asst. 
mgr. The Keal Estate department, .^ust a plain, uard-working 
Clevelander, who is coming. 

COLLIE, Wmard A.; supt. car service, N. Y., C. & St. L. E. E.; 
born, Martin, Mich., Nov. 28, 1871; public school educatiou in 
Plainvill, Mich.; married, Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 20, 1897, Ella 
Crosby; two sons, Murray and Wayne; entered service of N. Y., 
C. & St. Louis E. E. March 10, 1890 as telegraph operator; then 
car distributor, chief clerk to division supt. and chief clerk to 
supt. transportation; appointed supt. car service, January, 1911. 

COLLIEB, Arthur W.; real estate; born, England, June, 1884; 
son of James and Eliza Collier; educated. Saint Thomas School 
and King Edward Grammar School, England, and under private 
tutors; pres. The Collier Eealty & Trust Co.; sec'y and treas. The 
Farmer's Exchange & Eealty Co.; vice pres. The Collier Bro. 's 
Provision Co.; trustee Sunshine Cottage; member West Farming- 
ton Hunt Club. Eecreations: Tennis and Golf. 

COLLVER, D. Jay; district passenger agt., N. Y. C. Lines; 
born. Stanhope, N. J., Aug. 20, 1846; educated, public schools, 
Clyde, O. ; engaged in the dry goods business in Clyde; came to 
Cleveland about 1875; entering the service of the Bee Line E. E. 
Co., now part of the Big Four system of the N. Y. Central Lines; 
originator of long-distance excursions and high-class tours in the 
U. S.; enlisted Co. A, 72d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, November, 
1861; discharged, March, 1863; re-enlisted, 1864, 196th Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry (Hospital Steward); chief clerk at headquarters 
Duryea; brigade to close of war; married, April 29, 1891; Francis 
M. Harris; member Cleveland Athletic Club; Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

COMEEFORD, John Joseph; plumbing contractor; born, Cleve- 
land, March 1, 1868; son of John and Bridget Elizabeth Fennel 
Comerford; educated, St. Patrick's Parochial School; married, 
Cleveland, Oct. 16, 1889; Anna D. Dolan; asst. plumbing inspector 
in 1893-1894; did the plumbing in the mansion of Colonel Morgan 
in Alliance, O., all piping was made of brass, costing about $13,000; 
trustee and director Cuyahoga Plumbing Supply Co.; pres. of the 
Local Union, No. 35, in 1892; treas. Cleveland Master Plumbers' 
Ass'n, in 1904, and pres. in 1905; member The Builder's Exchange; 
pres. of the Cleveland Master Plumbers' Club, 1912, treas. in 1911. 



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COMEY, George P.; manufacturer; born, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 
21, 1858j son of George P. and Clara Dean Comey; educated, 
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Connecticut Literary Insti- 
tute, at Suffield, Conn.; married, Hinsdale, Mass., June 29, 1881, 
Miss Nannie J. Gill; issue, seven children, Clara M., Florence L., 
George Lawrence, Frederick Harlan, Kalph, Harold and Kobert; 
business career with his father and uncle in New York City, in the 
manufacture of ladies' hats and straw goods for two years, 
came to Cleveland in 1880, and engaged in the same business with 
J. G. Pettee & Co.; after three years bought Mr. Pettee's interest, 
and organized the firm of Comey & Johnson; Mr. Johnson died in 
1905, and the firm was re-incorporated; pres. the Comey & John- 
son Co., pioneer firm in Cleveland in the manufacture of women's 
straw and felt hats, and one of the largest firms of its kind in 
the U. S.; director The First National Bank; vice pres. The Ameri- 
can Artificial Silk Co.; member Union, Euclid and Automobile 
Clubs. 

COMSTOCK, Frank Mason; college prof.; born, LeEoy, N. Y., 
May 20, 1855; son of Samuel Frances and Mary Mason Turner 
Comstock; A. B., C. E., Union College, 1876; A. M., 1879; Ph. D., 
1891; married, Louise Brown, of LeEoy, N. Y., June 29, 1882; on 
New York Adirondack survey, 1876 principal LeEoy Academic In- 
stitution, 1879-1891; prof, natural history and descriptive geometry. 
Case School of Applied Science, since 1891; member American 
Forestry Ass'n, Canadian Forestry Ass'n, National Geological 
Society, etc. Contributor to technical periodicals. 

CONANT, Jesse Grant; contractor and builder; born, Hinckley, 
O., Nov. 5, 1869; son of Lewis and Catherine Dunn Conant; edu- 
cated in the Hinckley schools, 1875 to 1885; married, Cleveland, O., 
June 8, 1892, Hattie E. Kirsch; one son, Kirseh Lewis Conant; at 
the age of 20, in the spring of 1890, he came to Cleveland to learn 
the carpenter's trade; worked at it until 1906; he then started in 
the contracting business; has been successful, averaging three 
houses a month during some seasons; in 1909, began dealing in real 
estate in connection with his contracting, both businesses have had 
a steady growth; member Woodmen of the World, Greater Cleve- 
land Camp, No. 28; Geyer Lodge, No. 728, K. of P.; Cleveland 
Chamber of Industry. 

CONELLY, Ludwig S.; real estate; born, Eoss county, 0., 1883; 
son of George B. and Elizabeth Shaner Conelly; educated in coun- 
try schools of Eoss County, O., and finished in the grammar schools 
of Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Nov. 24, 1904; Sadie M. Cum- 
mings; issue, son (1906), and daughter (1911); first lieut. Cleve- 
land Grays (joined in 1903); pres. The Conelly Co.; member Cleve- 
land Eeal Estate Board; Athletic Club; trustee Cleveland Grays. 
Recreations: Horseback Exercise and Eifle Shooting. 



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CONGALTON, W. P.; real estate; born, Guelph, Can., 1875; came 
to Cleveland when a boy; public school and Spencerian Business 
College Education; business career, clerk for several years Eelief 
Dept. of the Pennsylvania E. E.; asst. bookkeeper Standard Tool 
Co.; for three years charge of Eeal Estate Dept. of the Old Sav- 
ings & Trust Co.; previous to its consolidation with the Citizens 
Savings & Trust Co.; in 1902, became associated with John H. 
Blood in the capacity of real estate salesman; in 1906, started in 
business for himself, making a speciality of business realty; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce, Athletic Club, and United Commercial 
Traveler's Ass'n. 

CONGER, James W.; merchant and mfr.; born, Washington 
County, Pa., Aug. 6, 1845; son of Wm. Henry Harrison and Martha 
Auld Conger; country school education and business college, 
(Columbus, O.); married, Columbus, O., 1869, Anna M. Higgins; 
issue, one daughter and two sons (one deceased); served three years, 
ten months, in Civil War (43d O. V. I.); never absent from regi- 
ment; presidential elector 1896, delegate Eepublican National con- 
vention, 1912, but declined to serve; delegate to Progressive 
National convention 1912, being on committee to notify Theodore 
Eoosevelt of his nomination; elector-at-large, heading state Pro- 
gressive ticket, same year; vice pres. and treas. Auld & Conger 
Co.; pres. and treas. Aulcon Bldg. Co.; director American Sea 
Green Slate Co.; vice pres. and treas. Bangor Bldg. Co.; vice pres. 
Greenleaf Eealty Co.; trustee Cleveland Pulte Medical College 
and Calvary Presbyterian Church; member Colonial and Cleveland 
Athletic Clubs; G. A. E. 

CONNELLY, William Clement; mfr.; born, Cleveland, 1875; son 
of Daniel and Kate Laughlin Connelly; education, St. Ignatius 
College and Case School of Applied Science; married, iiuffalo, Nov. 
12, 1907, Mary C. Schaefer; issue, Daniel, born April 6, 1909; on 
leaving college, entered employ of his father, who had been estab- 
lished as a boiler manufacturer in Cleveland sine? 1875; business 
incorporated in 1905, and taken into firm as secretary and treas- 
urer; elected president of the D. Connelly Boiler Co., on death 
of father, in 1911; member Chamber of Commerce and Cleveland 
Athletic Club. 

COOK, Albert Judson; physician; born, Madison, Lake County, 
O., Jan. 3, 1850; son of George Turney and Louise Genung Cook; 
education, common schools and Western University, M. D., 1871; 
Ad Eundem degree, later; married, Madison, O., Oct. 1, 1873, Grace 
Evelyn Bidwell; four children, one living; district physician; six 
years member Board of Health; four years capt. and asst. sur- 
geon, 5th Eegiment, O. N. G.; 40 years practiced medicine and 
surgery in Cleveland; 2nd vice pres., director and chairman of 
daily and executive committee of The Broadway Savings & Trust 
Co.; director and member of appraisal and daily and weekly com- 
mittees of The Woodland Ave. Savings & Trust Co.; interested in 



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the Cleveland Worsted Mills Co. and The Grasselli Chemical Co.; 
member American Medical Ass'n; Ohio State Medical Ass'n, and 
Cleveland Academy of Medicine; member Chamber of Commerce 
and I. O. F. 

COOK, O. Brenton; automobile business; born, Frankfort, Ind., 
Nov. 30, 1882; son of Jonathan and Dorcas Cook; educated, public 
schools, Eose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind., 1901-1905; 
married, Toledo, O., Feb. 3, 1910, Francis Florence Smith; one 
daughter, Francis Catherine; 1905-1906, graduate engineering ap- 
prentice; 1906-1909, sales engineer Bullock Electric Mfg. Co., Cin- 
cinnati, O.; 1909-1912 mgr. Allis-Chalmers Co., Toledo, O.; 1912, 
branch mgr. Stevens-Duryea Co.; member American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers; Bachelor of Science (B. S.); member Ath- 
letic Club. 

COOK, Harley Stephen; claim agent New York Central Lines; 
born, Columbus Grove, O., Dec. 4, 1882; son of William Mitchell 
and Mary Trumbo Cook; education, high school, Woosttr Univer- 
sity, Ohio State University class of '05; did not finish; married, 
Chicago, 111., March 9, 1912, Blanche Irene Brady; served two 
years in Ohio National Guard, at Ottawa, 0.; Co. M, 2nd Infantry; 
held rank of corporal; offered 2nd lieutenancy, but declined for 
business reasons; 1905-1906, in store dept. of Lake Erie & Western 
K. E., at Lima, O.; two and one-half years in testing dept. L. S. & 
M. S. E. E., at Collinwood, O. ; Nov. 7, 1908, made claim agent of 
same road; Feb. 2, 1909, moved to Chicago as claim agent N. Y. C. 
Lines; remained until April 4, 1911; then returned to Cleveland in 
same position; marksman's badge, O. N. G. ; member Beta Theta 
Pi Fraternity; member Blue Lodge, Masonic; Eufus Putnam, 364; 
member Masonic Chapter Lodge, 310, Normal Park, Chicago. 
Eecreation: Tennis. 

COOK, Otis Riclunond; automobile tire business; born, Cleve- 
land, Oct. 16, 1875; son of Colonel Benton and Jennie Shattuck 
Cook; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, 
Feb. 20, 1896, Gertrude lone Bacon; one son, Joseph Arthur Cook; 
for 13 years general representative The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 
O.; two years general representative of The Firestone Tire & 
Eubber Co.; at present manager The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., and 
director of factory sales for same company; member Tyrian Lodge, 
F. & A. M., No. 370, Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar, 
32d° Scottish Eite Mason, Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine; mem- 
ber Masonic and Athletic Clubs. Eecreations: Motoring and 
Baseball. 

COOL, Henry E.; wholesale lumber; born, Urbanna, O., Oct. 22, 
1878; son of William A. and Lena Eose Cool; education. Urbanna 
University and Ohio State University, 1899; married, Cleveland, 
Nov. 23, 1904, Helen Eanney Adams; issue, Kenneth Adams, Dec. 
13, 1905, Janet Eanney, July 12, 1907; New York mgr. of Eastern 



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Sash, Door & Glass Co.j resigning to join Ms father in lumber 
business; later junior partner in W. A. Cool & Son (1904); sec'y 
Service Eecorder Co.; director Adams Bag Co.; member Chamber 
of Commerce, and Hermit Club; Chi Phi; interested in the de- 
velopment of southern timber and farm holdings; Methodist. 

CORD AY, B. F.; printing; corn, Chicago, 111., 1871; son of B. H. 
and Dora Baruch Corday; public school education, Cleveland; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Jan. 5, 1895; two children, one son, Ellis H., born 
Jan. 17, 1897, and Estelle, born Sept. 9, 1898; pres. and treas. The 
Corday & Gross Co.; trustee Euclid Ave. Temple; member Athletic 
and Automobile Clubs. 

COBLETT, William Thomas; physinan; born Orange, O., April 
15, 1854; son of William and Ann Avery Corlett; educated, Oberlin 
College, 1870-1873; M. D., Wooster University, 1877; student and 
asst. London Hospital, 1879-1881; Hospital St. Louis, Paris, winter 
1881; diploma Eoyal College Physicians, London 1881; later stu- 
died in Vienna, Berlin and Breslau; mairied at Eheinpfalz, Ger- 
many, Amanda Marie Leisy, of Cleveland, June 26, 1895; prof, 
diseases of the skin and genito-urinary diseases, Wooster Univer- 
sity, 1883-1885; prof, dermatology and syphilograph. Western Ee- 
serve University, since 1885; fellow Eoyal Society Medicine (Great 
Britain); member 11th International Medical Congress, Eome, 1894; 
American Public Health Ass'n, Mexico City, 1893; International 
Congress Dermatology, London, 1896; Member American Der- 
matology Ass'n (pres., 1905); A. M. A., Cleveland Academy Medi- 
cine, etc. Clubs: Union, Country. Author: Treatise on the Acute 
Infectious Exanthemata, 1901; The American Tropics, 1908. 
Wrote: The Scaly Diseases of the Skin (Vol. Ill, Morrow's Sys- 
tem of Dermatology, etc.), 1894; The Vegetable Parasitic Diseases 
of the Skin (in Bangs and Hardaway's American Text-Book of 
Genito-Urinary Diseases, etc.}, 1898; Purpura, Pompholyx and, 
Pellagra, in Eeference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, 1903; 
also articles on diseases of the skin in leading American and for- 
eign journals. 

CORNING, Henry Wick; sec'y and treas. Standard Sewing Ma- 
chine Co.; born, Cleveland, Jan. 13, 1869; son of Warren Holmes 
and Mary Helen Wick Corning; educated, Cleveland public schools, 
St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and Harvard University, 
graduating B. A. degree in 1891; married, Nov. 2, 1897, Miss Edith 
Warden; one daughter, Mary, and one son, Warren Holmes; mili- 
tary record; member Troop A, O. N. G.; served as second and first 
lieut., capt. 1st Ohio Cavalry (commanding Troop A), during Span- 
ish-American War; engaged with his father in management of vari- 
ous private interests; in 1895, became connected with the Standard 
Sewing Machine Co., as sec'y and treas; member Athletic, Country, 
Eoadside, Tavern, and Mayfield Country Clubs, (Cleveland), and 
Knickerbocker Club, of New York. Eecreations: Golf, Tennis, and 
Motoring. 



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OOTABISH, Nelson C; sales mgr.; born, Cleveland; educated, 
public schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Helen McBride; one 
child; Councilman City of Lakewood, 1906-1907; mayor of Lake- 
wood, 1910-1011; since 1890, sales mgr. of The National Carbon 
Co.; treas. Lakewood Yacht Club; Lakewood Masonic Temple Co.; 
Eamsford Engine Co.; Past Master, K. O. T. M.; F. & A. M. No. 
601; member West Side Chamber of Industry, Chamber of Com- 
merce, Lakewood Chamber of Commerce; Highland and Lakewood 
Tennis Clubs, and Misable Trout and Game Club. Kecreations: 
Hunting and Fishing and General Out-door Sports. 

COTTINGHAM, Walter Horace; president The Sherwin Williams 
Co.; born, Ounenice, Ont., Canada, Jan. 8, 1866; son of William 
and Lucy Cottingham; first employed as clerk in hardware store 
in Peterboro, Ont.; prop. Walter H. Cottingham & Co., paints and 
varnishes, Montreal; senior partner Cottingham, Kobertson & Co., 
Montreal; in 1896, mgr. Montreal branch. The Sherwin Williams 
Co.; appt. gen. mgr. Sherwin Williams Co. of Ohio, in 1898; vice 
pres. and gen. mgr. in 1903; pres. in 1908; is also pres. Sherwin 
Williams Co. of Canada, Ltd.; Cleveland Box Co. and Ozark Smelt- 
ing Co.; chairman of board, Lewis Berger & Sons, Ltd., London; 
director Cleveland Trust Co.; executive member Eailway Business 
Ass'n, N. Y.; National Civic Ass'n, Efficiency Society, N. Y.; 
American Academy Political and Social Science; member Union, 
Country, Mayfield, Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs, Cleveland; St. 
Maurice Fish and Game Club, Canada; Phylis Court Club, Henley 
on Thames, Eng.; married May 22, 1888, Montreal, Gertrude E. 
Bennett, of that city; issue, two sons and two daughters; author 
of "Business Success"; this work was published in America and 
England and has been sold in every country in the world. Fond 
of Golf. 

COURTNEY, Clarence W.; civil engineer; born, Mansfield, 0., 
Aug. 16, 1879; son of John W. and Mary B. Whiteman Courtney; 
degree of mechanical engineer. Case School of Applied Science, 
1903; married, Cleveland, June 2, 1904, Mary L. Gates; issue, 
Leland S., Oct. 17, 1907, John E., Oct. 10, 1910; member Phi Kappa 
Psi, Tau Betta Pi, Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic Club, 
Cleveland Engineering Society; Mason; consulting engineer for 
municipal improvements and architectural engineer for factory 
and commercial buildings since 1903. 

COWDERY, Warren Hervey; mfgr.; born, Perry, O., May 21, 
1853; son of Lyman Hervey and Sarah Holmes Cowdery; educated, 
High School, Painesville, O.; married, C-eneva, O., Sept. 19, 1878, 
Hattie Kelle^ , two sons and tvo daughters; at 21 years of age, 
sec'y The Geneva Tool Co.; organized The Ashtabula Tool Co. in 
1880; was sec'y and trras. of the company until 1902, then became 
Ist vice pres. of The American Fork & Hoe Co.; became pres. of 



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the Company in 1908; pres. The National Handle Co.; trustee 
Hiram College; Ohio Christian Missionary Society; member Willo- 
wick Country Club. 

OOWIiES, John G. W.; financier; born, Oberlin, O., March 14, 
1836; son of Eev, Henry and Alice Welch Cowles; educated in 
public and preparatory schools of Oberlin; entered Oberlin Col- 
lege, graduating in 1856; studied for the ministry, earning money 
for education by teaching; graduated from the Oberlin Theological 
Seminary in 1859; married, in 1859, to Lois M. Church, of Vert- 
montville, Mich.; issue, two daughters, living, and two sons, de- 
ceased; second marriage, to Miss Beatrice Walker, of Brantford, 
Conn.; issue, one daughter, Jeanette, born in 1905; preached in the 
Congregational Church of Bellevue from 1859 to 1861; joined the 
army then; elected Chaplain of 55th O. V. I.; in the fall of 1862; 
resigned as Chaplain, and became the pastor of the First Congrega- 
tional Church, Mansfield, in 1865; went to the church in Saginaw, 
Mich.; after six years, and on account of ill health, gave up the 
ministry and came to Cleveland, and for 3 years was editorial 
writer for the Leader; gradually drifted into the real estate field 
and had a prominent part in the large real estate deals of the city 
mgr. of the real estate interests of John D. Rockefeller and Charles 
F. Brush, for eight years; served as pres. Cleveland Trust Co. 
pres. Cleveland Chamber of Commerce (1896) ; pres. Park Board Com 
mission (1900); trustee Oberlin College since 1874; LL. D., 1898 
member Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, Army and Navy 
Post, G. A. R.; Republican; member and deacon of Plymouth Con- 
gregational Church until its recent abandonment. 

COX, Jacob Dolson; manufacturer; born, Warren, O., May 15, 
1852; son of Jacob Dolson and Helen Finney Cox; educated, public 
schools; married, Cleveland, 1878, Ellen Atwood Prentiss; three 
children; when 17 years old began work in the iron business, 
worked 8 years, learning roll turning, puddling, heating, rolling 
and practical machinist work with The Cleveland Iron Co.; in 
1876, started present business manufacturing twist drills and tools; 
director Cleveland Trust Co.; director Cleveland & Pittsburgh E. 
R. Co.; trustee Case School of Applied Science; pres. The Cleveland 
Twist Drill Co.; member American Society Mechanical Engineers; 
member Loyal Legion; Society Mayflower Descendants; member 
Yacht, Country and Mayfield Country Clubs. Recreations: Yacht- 
ing, Golf and Photography. 

OOX, Jacob Dolson, Jr.; manfg.; born, Cleveland, Nov. 1, 1881; 
son of Jacob Dolson and Ellen Prentiss Cox; educated Williams 
College, Williamstown, Mass., class of 1903, degree A. B.; January 
to December 1910, McFadden Logging Co., Ltd.; Vancouver, B. C; 
January, 1911, Cleveland Twist Drill Co.; October 1911, to date, 



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3rd vice pres. and director Cleveland Twist Drill Co.; member 
Chamber of Commerce, and Chi Psi Club; member Phi Beta Kappa; 
Williams College Fraternity; member Country and University 
Clubs. Kecreations: Golf, Motoring and Yachting, 

COX, John H.; claim adjuster The Cleveland Eailway Co.; born 
Cleveland, July 2, 1873; public and law school of Baldwin uni- 
versity; married, October, 1895, Carrie Steinkamp; issue, four chil- 
dren; with Western Union, as cashier, twenty-four years; Com- 
mon Pleas Court journal clerk two years; active in Eepublican 
politics; three years pres. Cuyahoga County League of Republican 
Clubs; director The Universal Amusement Co;; trustee West Side 
Masonic temple; member Delta Phi Delta Legal Fraternity; Pearl 
Lodge, K. of P.; Western Reserve Club, Masonic Club; past master 
Bigelow Lodge, F. & A. M.; Knight Templar and Shriner. 

CRAMPTON, Paul Scott; attorney-at-law; born, St. Clair, Mich., 
March 6, 1886; son of Benjamin Franklin and Emeline Jenks 
Crampton; educated, University of Michigan, LL. B., class of 
1908; married, St. Clair, Mich., Sept. 18, 1912, Mary Rummels 
Fayram; color sergt. 5th Regiment, O. N. G. ; commenced practicing 
law ir Cleveland in July, 1908; treas. University of Michigan 
Alumni Ass'n; member Euclid Ave. Presbyterian Church, and City 
Club. Recreations: Walking and (formerly) Football. 

CRANE, Fred Sanford; sales mgr.; born, Mantua, O., July 15, 
1875; son of Simeon Charles and Laura L. Crane; educated, Mantua 
and Ravenna schools and Hiram College; married, Hudson, O., 
March 17, 1900, Alice E. Ellsworth; sales mgr. Burroughs Adding 
Machine Co., since 1903, Cleveland; member Masonic, Knight 
Templars, Consistory, Shrine, Automobile and Rotary Clubs, and 
Association of Credit Men. 

CRANE, Percie D.; pres. Meech Foundry Co.; born, Michigan, 
Jan. 9, 1874; son of A. T. and ulara Dunham Crane; educated in 
Saranac, Mich., schools; married, Milwaukee, 1897, Mella A. Par- 
sons; issue, one son; president the P. D. Crane Co.; member Cleve- 
land Whist Club, Acme Club. 

CREECH, Harris; banker and mfg.; born, Cleveland, Feb. 26, 
1874; son of James and Clarabelle Simmods Creech; High School 
education; married, Allegan, Mich., Oct. 7, 1903; Carlotta Pope; 
one daughter, Florence, and one son, James; with The Garfield 
Savings Bank Co. since 1892; now vice pres. and treas. The Ajax 
Mnfg. Co.; member Union and Mayfield Clubs. 

CREER, William R.; banker; born, Isle of Man, Jan. 17, 1861; 
son of Robert and Eleanor Craine Creer; common school educa- 
tion; married, Vermont, Anna Frances Burnham; two sons. Burn- 
ham R., and William R., Jr., began business life at an early age 
from stern necessity, first a clerk; came to Cleveland in 1893, as 



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representative of an Eastern manufacturing company; three years 
later organized The Cleveland Savings & Loan Co.; was sec'y; in 
1911, elected president; pres. Cleveland Advertising Club; sec'y 
and treas. Crest Eeal Estate Co.; director Land Abstract Co.; 
Federal Union Insurance Co.; treas. Mona's Eelief Society; mem- 
ber Advertising Club and Chamber of Commerce. 

CREW, William Binford; judge, born, Chester Hill, Morgan 
County, O., April 1, 1852; son of Fleming and Sarah (Patterson) 
Crew; educated Westtown College, Ohio State and Union Law 
School, 1874; married, Elizabeth Worrall of Chester Hill, O., May 
9, 1876; pros. atty. Morgan County, O., 1876; member Ohio Legis- 
lature, 1889; judge Court of Common Pleas, 8th Judicial District, 
1891-1902; appointed judge Supreme Court, Ohio, July 19, 1902, to 
fill vacancy caused by death of Hon. M. J. Williams; elected judge, 
Nov. 4, 1902; Kepublican. 

CRILE, George W.; surgeon, born, Chili, O., Nov. 11, 1864; son 
of Michael and Margaret (Deeds) Crile; A. B., Ohio Northern Uni- 
versity, 1884, A. M., 1888; M. D., Wooster University, Cleveland, 
1887; student Vienna, 1893; London, 1895; Paris, 1897; (hon. Ph. 
D., Hiram College, 1901); married Grace McBride, of Cleveland, 
Feb. 7, 1900; prof. clin. surgery, Western Keserve University, 
since, 1900; surgeon, Lakeside Hospital Alvarenga prize. College 
Physiology, Phila., 1901; fellow, A. A. A. S.; member Association 
of American Pathologists and Bacteriologists, A. M. A.; American 
Surgical Association; Soc. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 
American Physiology Society. Author: Surgical Shock, 1897; Sur- 
gery of Kespiratory System, 1900; Certain Problems Relating to 
Surgical Operations, 1904; On the Blood Pressure in Surgery, 
1903; Hemorrhage and Transfusion, 1909; major and brigade sur- 
geon, U. S. v., 1898-1899, war with Spain. 

CROFUT, William Elmer; wholesale rubber; born, Syracuse, N. 
Y., Sept. 5, 1874; son of Elmer Burr and Hattie A. Davis Crofut; 
educated in public and private schools of Syracuse and Syracuse 
University; married. Concord, N. H., Dec. 5, 1899, Euth Paul; one 
son, William E., Jr., served in 141st N. Y., Spanish-American War; 
came to Cleveland, October, 1899, as manager of a mercantile 
agency; three years later engaged as sec'y and treas. Ohio Rubber 
Co., remaining with the firm until September, 1905, when he or- 
ganized the Forest City Rubber Co., continuing as president-treas- 
urer and gen. mgr. since; member Mayfield Country Club, Chamber 
of Commerce, Credit Men 's Ass 'n. 

CROWELL, Benedict; mining engineer; born, Cleveland, O., 
1870; son of William and Mary Benedict Crowell; educated St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and Yale University, 1891; married, 
Cleveland, 1904, Julia R. Cobb; two children, Florence Cobb Crowell 
and Benedict Crowell, Jr.; pres. Crowell & Sherman Co., The Tav- 
ern Club and Wetherbee Concentrator Co.; director Associated In- 



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vestors Eealty Co., and National City Bank; senior partner Crowell 
& Murray; member American Institute of Mining Engineers; N. Y., 
Lake Superior and Canada; American Society for Testing Mater- 
ials; American Chemical Society; California Miners Ass'n; Ohio 
Society of New York; member Tavern, Union, Mayfield, Country, 
Athletic, Cleveland Gun, Chagrin Valley Hunt, and Gentleman's 
Driving Clubs, all of Cleveland; and the Ottawa Shooting Club, 
University Club, New York City; University Club, CMcago; Uni- 
versity Club, St. Paul, Minn., and Yale Club, New York City. 

CRUM, X. X.; real estate; born in Macoupin County, 111.; edu- 
cated, public schools Lombard University and Blackburn Univers- 
ity, degree of A. B. ; in 1883, married Miss Marcia Phelps; issue, 
two sons; supt. of schools for five years in Carlinville, 111.; teacher 
of sciences in Keokuk, la.; supt. of schools of Lincoln, Neb.; 
came to Cleveland in 1881, as sec'y and treas. of the Board of 
Trade, later known as the Chamber of Commerce; wrote the his- 
tory of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Life of 
Cleveland; organized the National Safe & Lock Co.; charge of 
Safe Dept. of MacNeale & Urban Co., of Cincinnati; after four 
years returned to Cleveland, and entered the real estate business; 
specialty, city blocks; member Chamber of Commerce and various 
clubs. 

CUDELL, Frank Edward; architect; retired; born, Herzogen- 
arth, Germany, May 11, 1844; studied architecture in Aix-La-Cha- 
pelle, Germany; came to New York in 1866; then came to Cleveland 
and has resided here since; four years employment by local archi- 
tects; opened own office in 1871; at the end of a year, formed 
partnership with J. N. Eichardson, firm name Cudell & Eichardson; 
drew plans for the Perry Payne, Beckman, McBride Brothers, Jew- 
ish Orphan Asylum, Educational Alliance, Masonic Temple Build- 
ings, and St. Joseph's and St. Stephen's Churches; in 1890, with- 
drew from the firm, because of ill health; in 1878, invented ball 
sewer gas trap, the manufacturer of this article requiring special 
tools and men specially trained; withdrew from architecture and 
engaged in laying out Mueller Ave. and Cudell St.; during the ad- 
ministration of the late Mayor Tom L. Johnson, took a large in- 
terest in public building matters; in this capacity, did much for 
the good of the city; in 1903, gave to the city, free, a plan of the 
group plan; it was the result of much study; was adopted by the 
city, but afterward rejected through unfair means; have given 
to the city for park purposes the Detroit Ave. frontage from West 
Boulevard to W. 100th St. 

CULLITAN, Frank T.; lawyer; born, Cleveland, March 5, 1880; 
son of David and Anna Cullitan; educated St. Ignatius College, 
Law Dept. Baldwin-Wallace University, 1906, LL. B.; married, 
Cleveland, Nov. 21, 1907, Anna Marie Millard; one daughter, 
Catherine Frances; active in civic affairs; admitted to bar, June, 
1906; practiced in Cleveland since; chosen by Citizens Committee 



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to stand for Constitutional delegate, 1912; treas. and director Co- 
lumbian Bldg. Co.; member Ohio State Bar Ass'n; member Delta 
Phi Delta Legal Fraternity; Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order 
of Foresters, and Ancient Order of Hibernians; district deputy for 
1st Ohio District, Knights of Columbus. 

CUNNINGHAM, Edward Walter; civil engineer; born, Alle- 
gheny, Pa., March 14, 1872; son of Eobert H. and Virginia E. Loy 
Cunningham; educated, public schools and Ohio State University 
(civil engineer, class 1894) ; married, Eipley, W. Va., Oct. 10, 1900, 
Daisy E. Eobinson; issue, Odell Virginia; structural draftsman to 
1895; construction supt. 1895-1898; junior engineer, corps of en- 
gineers, TJ. S. army, April, 1898, to November, 1899; supt. con- 
struction to 1900; structural and bridge engineer 1900 to 1904; 
asst. engineer, American Bridge Co^ 1904 to 1907; with Vorce 
Engineering Co. to 1909; asst. engineer Osborn Engineering Co. to 
1912; asst. inspector of buildings, city of Cleveland, January, 1912, 
to date; pres. Edgewater Tennis Club Co.; member American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers; Phi Gamma Delta; Edgewater Tennis and 
Singers' Clubs; Mason. 

CURRIER, John J.; jeweler; born, Cleveland, Sept. 7, 1877; son 
of Daniel and Mary Dunn Currier; educated at St, Augustine's 
School; married, Cleveland, Nov. 23, 1904, Theresa Helen Dein- 
inger; issue, one son and' one daughter; in 1891, went with the 
Webb C. Ball Co.; eight years in their employ; then with Sigler 
Bros., for four years, with the Force Bros. Co. for three years; 
now own business, located at 2631 W. 14th St.; member Knights of 
Columbus, Augustine Club, The Deutsche, and Tuxedo Clubs; sec'y 
Jennings Square Business Men's Ass'n; also director. 

CURTIS, Mattoon Monroe; universitv prof.; born, Eome, N. T., 
Oct. 19, 1858; son of William F. and Harriet E. (Eoyce) Curtis; 
A, B., Hamilton College, 1880; A. M., 1882; graduate ITnion Theo- 
logical Seminary, 1883; studied University of Leipzig, 1889-1891, 
Ph. D., 1890; married, Emily, daughter of William Few Chrystie, 
of Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1884; ordained Presbyterian 
ministry, 1883; pastor Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1883-1885; Beck- 
with Memorial Church, Cleveland, 1885-1888; prof, philosophy. 
Western Eeserve University since 1891; supervisor of 13th Federal 
Census in Cuyahoga County, O., vice pres. Cleveland School of Art; 
member board managers, Western Eeserve University; member 
American Philosophical Society, American Anthropological Society, 
American Academy Political and Social Science, A. A. A. S.; Eoyal 
Society Arts, London, S. A. E. Clubs: Union, University (dir.), 
Euclid, Mayfield Country. Author: Locke's Ethics, 1890; Philos- 
ophy and Physical Science, 1892; Philosophy in America, 1896; 
Kant and Edwards, 1905; pIso other works. 



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OUBTISS, J. Milton; pres. The Curtiss-Ambler Realty Co.; born, 
Harrisville, Medina County, O., Feb. 26, 1840; educated in the 
district and city schools, Brooklyn Academy and Cleveland Insti- 
tute, University Heights, now Lincoln Heights; taught district 
school one year; engaged in the nursery business for twenty years, 
helped to organize and was one of the first trustees of Brooklyn 
village; moved to Cleveland in 1868; member City Council, 1876 
to 1883; appointed Park Commissioner by Mayor Herrick; served 
two years; for five years supt. Eiverside Cemetery; pres. Kiverside 
Cemetery Ass'n. 

GUSHING, William Erastus; lawyer, born, Cleveland, Sept. 23, 
1853; son of Henry Kirke and Betsy Maria Williams Cushing; 
educ£.ted Western Eeserve College, A. B., 1875; Harvard Law 
School, LL. B., 1878; married, Pittsfield, Mass., June 4, 1884, 
Carolyn J. Kellogg; served a number of years as member of Ohio 
State Board of Commissioners on Uniform Laws, member law firm 
Cushing Siddall & Lamb; trustee University School, Adelbert 
College, First Presbyterian Church. 

CUTLER, James Elbert; university prof.; born, Princeville, HI., 
Jan. 24, 1876; son of Frank W. and Antonaiah (Hoag) Cutler; B. 
A., University of Colorado, 1900; graduate student Yale, 1900-1903; 
Ph. D., 1903; married, Carolena D. Sperry, of New Haven, Conn., 
June 25, 1903; instr. English and civic government. State Prepara- 
tory School of Colorado, 1899-1909; instr. political economy, Yale, 
1903-4; instr. economics, Wellesley College, 1904-1906; asst. prof, 
political economy. University of Michigan, 1906-1907; asso. prof, 
sociology, 1907-1910, prof. 1910-, Western Eeserve University; 
member American Economics Ass'n, American Academy Political 
and Social Science; American Sociological Society, National Con- 
ference Charities and Correction, American Association Labor 
Legislation, National Society Promoting Industrial Education, 
American Eed Cross Society, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 
Author: Lynch Law, an Investigation Into the History of Lynch- 
ing in the U. S., 1905; contbr. to reviews, etc. 

DALL, Andrew; contractor; born, Markinch, Scotland, 1850; 
son of Andrew and Elizabeth Davidson Dall; public school educa- 
tion; married, 1873, Miss Alice Bennett; issue, three sons and three 
daughters; took up building as life work; early training under his 
father; admitted to partnership in 1874; in 1877, began independ- 
ent business; erected the Wilshire Bldg., Fairmount pumping sta- 
tion, S. T. Everett's residence; in 1888, firm of McAllister & Dall 
was formed; built residence of Samuel Mather, Society for Sav- 
ings, Erie County Savings Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., one of the finest 
buildings in the country; Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Cleve- 
land, etc.; Eepublican; strong advocate of public education and 
city betterment. 



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BALL, William; contractor; born, Cleveland, Nov. 25, 1876; son 
of William and Alice Bennett Dall; educated in common schools 
and a University course; married, Cincinnati, June 1, 1899, Miss 
Florence Wing; worked three years for C. F. Schweinfurth, archi- 
tect; then went to Buffalo and learned the bricklaying trade; 
worked on the Erie County Savings Bank; after a year returned 
to Cleveland and became associated with his father in the con- 
tracting business, under firm name of William Dall & Son, con- 
tractors, for the new Court House, the Union Club, The Citizens 
Bank, the Havlin Hotel and Textile Bldg., Cincinnati, Zanesville, 
O., post of&ce, Taylor Arcade and the First National Bank; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Builders Exchange, Masons, Elks, and Ath- 
letic Club. 

DALY, Martin B.; born. May 11, 1860, and his early life was 
spent on a farm with his parents near Mayville, N. Y.; his grand- 
parents on both sides were born in Ireland; he received his educa- 
tion in public schools at Mayville, and in 1878, left home and went 
to the Bradford oil fields in Pennsylvania, and for three years 
worked in various capacities on leases, drilling wells, pipe lines 
and pump stations in the Bradford and Eichburg field; in 1881, he 
was engaged as assistant superintendent of the Warren County 
(Pennsylvania) Gas Fuel and Heating Company, controlled at that 
time by C. A. and D. Cornen; gas was piped to North Clarendon, 
Pa.; shortly after he engaged in this work, the Cherry Grove oil 
field was discovered; Mr. Daly was engaged as an oil scout during 
the drilling of the famous well "646" and other wildcat wells 
that had an important bearing on the oil market at that time; 
later he assisted in the construction of the gas plants at Oil City, 
Titusville and Meadville, making Oil City his headquarters, from 
which point he traveled for two years; in 1886, he was elected gen- 
eral superintendent of the Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel Company, of 
which the late Daniel O 'Day was president; this was the first 
attempt to pipe natural gas long distances, and writers in scien- 
tific journals expressed serious doubt as to the ability of the 
company to furnish any gas in Buffalo, after piping it 91 miles; 
the success of this enterprise led to the piping of natural gas to 
various cities situated long distances from the field, and it is now 
being successfully transported in large quantities over three hun- 
dred miles; prior to the construction of the Buffalo plant, natural 
gas was sold at flat rates; the Buffalo company was the first to in- 
troduce a natural gas meter; in 1889, the city of Toledo con- 
structed a municipal plant to compete with the Northwestern 
Ohio Natural Gas Company, and Mr. Daly was selected to take 
charge of the Northwestern Company's business; he applied the 
same methods that were followed in Buffalo, and introduced the 
meter system, as against the flat rate system, formerly in vogue; 
the feeling against the private company was very bitter, and its 
manager did not occupy an enviable position; all obstacles, how- 
ever, were overcome; the hatred towards the company by the com- 



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munity was turned to popularity, and the Northwestern Company 
is still doing a thriving business, while the failure of the munici- 
pally-owned plant in Toledo is generally known to the financial 
world; in 19U2, Mr. Daly secured from the city of Cleveland for 
the East Ohio Gas Company, a franchise to supply that city with 
natural gas; the late Tom L. Johnson was at that time Mayor, and 
had consistently opposed the granting of ary franchise to private 
corporations; today, about 150,000 families in Cleveland are sup- 
plied with natural gas for fuel; in 1909, the East Ohio Gas Com- 
pany merged with the People's Gas Company and The Cleveland 
Gas Light and Coke Company, and now distributes both natural 
and artificial gas. Mr. Daly is president and general manager of 
the Consolidated East Ohio Gas Company; also vice president of 
the National Gas, Electric Light and Power Company; president 
of the Natural Gas Association of America; president of the Car- 
bon Coal and Clay Company, State of Washington; director in the 
Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Company of Toledo, Ohio, and of 
The First Trust & Savings Bank, of Cleveland, and identified with 
several other large institutions; during his residence in Toledo, he 
was Exalted Euler of the Toledo Lodge of Elks, and for years 
thereafter, its treasurer. He was also a director in the Ohio Cen- 
tennial Company, by election of the business men of Toledo, and 
was appointed a Police Commissioner by Governor Nash, at the 
recommendation of the best citizens of Toledo without regard to 
party. Mr. Daly was married Feb. 5, 1890, to Kathleen McMahon, 
the only daughter of one of the most prominent families in 
western New York, at Ellicottvile, N. Y., and has five children, 
three boys and two girls, Kathleen Marie, Walter E., Martin B., 
Daniel and Margaret Elizabeth; he is a member of the Union, 
Euclid, Athletic and Automobile Clubs of Cleveland, and the 
Toledo Club, of Toledo; also a member of the Knights of Columbus, 
the Elks, Ohio Society of New York, American Gas Institute, and 
the Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland. 

DANGLER, D. Edward; mfr.; born, Cleveland, Feb. 23, 1858; 
son of David A. and J. Clark Dangler; educated in the schools of 
Cleveland and Philadelphia; married, Cleveland, Oct. 20, 1885, 
Effie M. Scofield; issue, three sons, C. S., Oct. 9, 1886, Frank, June 
23, 1888, C. E., April 25, 1895; formed first company for the manu- 
facture of gasoline stoves, 1880; has made this his business ever 
since; enlarged plants of the Dangler Stove Co., of which he is 
manager and director, from time to time; company has also taken 
up the manufacture oi oil and gas stoves and now sell output in 
practically every country; vice pres. and director American Box 
Co., and Union Salt Co.; sec'y-treas. Wilson Eealty Co.; member 
Union, Roadside, Country Clubs, Chamber of Commerce; six years 
a member of the Gatling Gun Battery. 



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DANIELS, Irving L.; civil engineer; born, Oberlin, O., June 26, 
1877 J son of Theodore F. and Julia H. Lewis Daniels; educated 
public and high school, Lorain, O., Berea College, Berea, Ky., and 
Oberlin College, Oberlin, 0.; married, Cleveland, O., Delia E. 
Holmden; two sons, 9 and 3 years of age; member Sons of Veter- 
ans, Lookout Camp, No. 466, and Cleveland Commandery, Uniform 
Bank Sons of Veterans; member the Old Stone Church (1st Presby- 
terian); member the Cleveland Chamber of Industry; for five years 
in Engineering Dept., L. S, & M. S. E. E., in the Toledo Division; 
on county work for a year; in charge of paving and surveys under 
B. Lea and Frank Lander, both former county engineers; one 
year with The Osborn Engineering Co.; was resident engineer in 
charge of erection for the new grandstand for the "Giants" at 
the Polo grounds. New York, connected with the National En- 
gineering Co. asst. vice pres. for past year; advisor Billings Poly- 
technic Institute, Billings, Mont.; member Archwood Mens' 
League, The Cleveland Powder Club, Lakewood Boat Club, Tippe- 
canoe and M. A. Hanna Clubs. Eecreations. Yachting and 
Water Sports; owner of two fine residence properties in Cleveland 
and has just purchased a new home in Lakewood. 

DAOUST, Edward CheUis; attorney-at-law; born. Defiance, O., 
Oct. 19, 1887; son of Charles J. and Mary Hooker Daoust; his 
father was a banker at Defiance, and his mother was the daughter 
of Judge Hooker, of Illinois; educated, Defiance High School, 
graduating, special student University of Michigan, 1904-1905, 
special student Scientific School, Yale University, 1907-1908; grad- 
uated from Yale 1909, with degree LL. B. (no honors); married, 
Cleveland, April 24, 1912, Clara Louis Bunts, daughter of Dr. 
Frank E. Bunts; issue, one daughter, Frances Harriet, born Feb. 
12, 1913; private Troop A, First Squadron, Ohio National Guard, 
since 1910; entered general practice of law in Cleveland, December, 
1909; in January, 1911, with John H. Price, John A, Alburn and 
Cary E. Alburn, formed the firm of Price, Alburn, Daoust & Al- 
burn; in July, 1911, Mr. Cary Alburn retired from the firm, to 
become Asst. U. S. Attorney, in May, 1912, was appointed United 
States Commissioner for Northern District of Ohio, by Judge 
William L. Day, serving in that capacity as incidental to his law 
practice; member Price, Alburn & Daoust, attorneys and couusel- 
lors-at-law; director of several corporations for which this firm acts 
as counsel; member Ohio Bar Ass 'n, Yale Alumni Ass'n and Civic 
League, Waite Chapter of Phi Delta Phi (legal fraternity at Yale), 
Society of "Corbey Court" at Yale; member Chamber of Com- 
merce and associate member of Eeal Estate Board, member of 
Union, University, Tippecanoe and City Clubs, Sons of American 
Eevolution, Omega Lodge, F. & A. M., and New York Athletic 
Club; treas. of Ohio Eepublican College League. Eecreations: 
Tennis, Georgian Bay Black Bass, and Good Books; interested in 
Civic affairs and river and harbor improvements for Cleveland, 
and in financial subjects and the study of investments. 



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DAEBY, John Eaton; physician; born, South Williamstown, 
Mass., Aug. 20, 1835; son of William and Electa (Edwards) Darby; 
A. B., Williams College, 1858; M. D., Western Eeserve Medical 
College, 1861; married at Cleveland, Julia Frances Wright, of Hud- 
son, O., April 11, .1861 (died May 3, 1867); 2d, Emma Maybell 
Cox, of Cleveland, May 1, 1872 (died June 2, 1888); prof. Latin 
and Greek, Cleveland Institute, 1858-1860; demonstrator anatomy, 
Western Eeserve Medical College, 1861-1862; surgeon in Civil War, 
1862-1866; surgeon Cleveland & Pittsburg E. E,, 1867-1887; mem- 
ber medical board, City Hospital, 1895-1908; emeritus prof, thera- 
peutics, 1906, Western Eeserve Medical College; has made special 
studies in natural history and is well-known as naturalist; member 
Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Society, A. M. 
A., Buffalo Society Natural Sciences, National Geographical So- 
ciety. 

DAVIDSON, Wilbur Leroy; clergyman; born, Woodsfield, O., 
April 3, 1853; son of William A. and Margaret (McGregor) David- 
son; A. B., Scio College, 1870; B. D., Drew Theological Seminary, 
1876; (D. D., Claflin U., 1889); married. Belle Clark, of Lexington, 
Ky., 1890; ordained, M. E. ministry, 1876; in pastorates, 1876-1886; 
field agt. Sunday School Union, 1886-1889; field agt. Chautauqua 
Literature and Scientific Circle, 1895-1902; supt. instruction at 15 
Chautauquas, 1887-1911; sec. The Am. Univ., 1899-1908; mgr. Nat. 
Chautauqua Bur. since July, 1908; Lyceum lecturer; del. Ecumeni- 
cal Methodist Conference, London, 1901; member National Geo- 
graphical Society. Clubs: University (Washington). Author: 
Over the Sea, and What I Saw, 1885; Frequent contributor to re- 
ligious and secular press. 

DAVIESS, W. W.; real estate broker; born, Louisville, Ky., 
March 1, 1870; son of Wallace Buchanan and Kate Applegate 
Daviess; educated, Louisville public schools; married, Louisville, 
Ky., Sept. 6, 1892, Grace Darling Bruner; two daughters; promoted 
the town of Conway, Ark., in 1908, selling 1,372 lots in 3 days; 
sold over $4,000,000 worth of real estate in Cleveland and 
vicinity in 1912; trustee St. Luke's Hospital; member Chamber of 
Commerce, and Athletic Club; Joseph Hamilton Daviess statesman 
and a great uncle, has a county in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky 
named for him; the name ceases at his death, as he is the only 
male survivor of an old Southern family. 

DAVIS, Albert Richard; automobiles; born, Delaware, O., Dee, 
20, 1877; son of A. E. and Jennie Christy Davis; public and high 
school education; married, Cleveland, Sept. 20, 1900, Hortense 
Tello; two children; manager Studebaker Auto Co., until July, 
1911, when he formed the A. E. Davis Motor Co., taking over 
Studebaker interests locally; pres. A. E. Davis Motor Co., member 
Chamber of Commerce, Union, Cleveland Athletic, Hermit, Eotary, 
Cleveland Automobile and Euclid Clubs. 



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DAVIS, Frank W.; railroad business; born, Cleveland, Jan. 1, 
1857; son of H. S. Davis, mother's name, Lyman; educated Cleve- 
land public schools; married, Cleveland, April, 1883, Katherine 
Wenderink; started when 15 years old working for Bingham & 
Williamson, hardware dealers; railroad sales mgr. for Lake Erie 
Iron Co., Cleveland; member Athletic Club; too busy for any recre- 
ations; outside of business spends time at home with his music. 

DAVIS, Edward Lockwood; hardware; born, Cleveland, Feb. 18, 
1874; son John J. and Frances M. Hunt Davis; B. A. degree, Yale 
University; married, Bay City, Mich., Oct, 18, 1899, Flora E. 
Eddy; sec'y and director Davis, Hunt, Collister Co., hardware, 
entering company 1896, and elected sec'y on its incorporation in 
1899; member Zeta Psi, Euclid and Hermit Clubs. 

DAVIS, Herbert Leland; physician and surgeon; born, Cleveland, 
Oct. 31, 1871; son of J. F. and Annie Benbow Davis; educated, 
public and high schools and Cleveland Medical College; married, 
Cleveland, Dec. 10, 1901, Mammie E. Eandall; one son, Eandall 
Leland Davis, born May 29, 1903; surgeon Medical Corps, N. G.; 
served as capt. from February, 1902, to March, 1912; served in 
Spanish- American War, and Cuba; medical inspector public schools; 
one of tLe founders; entered the medical profession, April 6, 1898; 
member Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Society, Amer- 
ican Medical Ass'n, Cleveland Medical Library; director Central 
Friendly Inn, Neighborhood Settlement House, and Associate 
Charities; member City Club and Chamber of Commerce; member 
Housing Committee of Chamber. 

DAWIiEY, Jay P.; lawyer; born, Kavenna, O., March 7, 1847; 
son of Perry P. and Rebecca Clemens Dawley; educated, Ravenna 
High School, and Western Reserve College; married, Corry, Pa., 
Sept. 12, 1873, Iva G. Canfield; issue, Frances C, William J., 
Arthur A. and Ruby S.; member of Company C, 16th Ohio Batal- 
lion Infantry; member Cleveland Board of Education and Cleve- 
land Library Board; practiced at Cleveland Bar for forty years; 
director Webb C. Ball & Co., and Baldwin Hotel Co.; member 
Delta Upsilon Fraternity. 

DAWSON, Robert H.; lawyer; born, Pontiac, Mich., March 28, 
1882; son of John W. and Jean Hamilton Dawson; educated. Uni- 
versity of Michigan, A. B., 1903, and Western Reserve University, 
1909, LL. B.; married, Pueblo, Colo., Sept. 14, 1910, Miss Luna 
Cooper; member Phi Delta Phi Fraternity. Recreations: Base- 
ball and Football. 

DAY, Luther; lawyer; born, Canton, O., May 9, 1879; son of 
William R. and Mary E. Lebaufu Day; married. Canton, O., June 
24, 1903, Ida McKinley Barber; two daughters, Katherine and Ida; 



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practiced law in Canton, O., six years; entered firm of Goulder, 
Day, White, Garry & Duncan, in Novenaber, 1910; member Psi 
Upsilon Fraternity and Athletic, Euclid, and Lakeside Country 
Clubs; and Chamber of Commerce. 

DAY, William Louis; judge, born. Canton, O., Aug, 13, 1876; 
son of William Eufus (q. v.) and Mary Elizabeth (Schaefer) Day; 
graduate Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 1896; LL. B., 
University of Michigan, 1900; married Elizabeth E. McKay, of 
Caro, Mich., Sept. 10, 1902; admitted to bar, 1900, and practiced 
at Canton; city solicitor, 1906-1908; U. S. atty.. Northern Dist. 
Ohio, 1908-1911; U. S. dist. judge. May 13, 1911- ; Kepublican, 
Lutheran. Clubs: Hermit, Cleveland Athletic, Nisi Prius. 

DECKEXl, Harry; merchant; born, Cleveland, Feb. 14, 1864; 
son of Denceman and Adriana Van Lesser Decker; educated public 
schools of Cleveland; married, Cleveland, May 31, 1888, Evelyn 
Weihl; five daughters; dry goods. 

DEEBING, Robert Waller; university dean; born, Hogansville, 
Ga., June 27, 1865; son of Rev. John R. and Fannie (Covin) Deer- 
ing; A. M., Vanderbilt University, 1885; A. M., Ph. D., University 
of Leipsiz, 1889; married Jessie Winn, of Mt. Sterling, Ky., Sept. 
9, 1891; adj. prof. Germanic languages, Vanderbilt, 1890-1892; 
prof. Germanic languages since 1892, dean, Grad. Faculty, since 
1893, Western Reserve University. Editor: The Little Gipsy 
(translated from Cervantes' La Jitanilla), 1891; Schiller's Wil- 
helm Tell, 1894; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, spl. edit., 1900; Goethe's 
Egmont, 1903; also monographs and reviews on philol. subjects. 

DEISHEB, Frederick Charles; master plumber; born, Pottsville, 
Pa., Jan. 31, 1873; son of Wm. E. and Jane E. Smith Deisher; 
educated, Cleveland schools; married, Mansfield, O., June 13, 1898, 
Josephine Schambs; three children; for eight years F. C. Deisher 
Plumbing & Heating, Incorporated, Feb. 28, 1913; pres. and mgr. 
The Deisher Plumbing & Heating Co.; F. & A. Masons; raised Iris 
Lodge, No. 229, Nov. 28, 1904; Exalted Cleveland Chapter, No. 
148, Cleveland, March 9, 1906; created Knight Templar in Holy- 
rood Commandery, No. 32, Cleveland, Dee. 20, 1906; created Grand 
Elect Mason, 14th degree, in Eliadah Lodge of Perfection, Feb, 
28, 1908; created Prince of Jerusalem, 16th degree, Bahurim 
Council at Cleveland, March 11, 1908; created Knight of Rose 
Croix, 18th degree, in Ariel Chapter, Cleveland; created Sublime 
Prince of the Royal Secret, 32nd degree in Lake Erie Consistory, 
March 13, 1908; Al Koran Temple, Al Sirat Grotto, Cleveland 
Council, No. 36, Royal and Select Masters. 

DEMING, Barton B.; real estate and bldg.; born, Mudson, Ont., 
August, 1875; son of Huburt U. and Susan Wigle Deming; On- 
tario schools, graduated Sarnia High School; married, Chicago, 
111., July 8, 1908, Helen R. Rice; one daughter; five years with 
Oglebayhorton & Co., iron ore; pres., treas. and mngr. The 



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Deming Bros. Co.; pres., treas. and mngr. The B. R. Deming Co.; 
member Chamber of Commerce and the Euclid and Automobile 
Clubs. 

DERCUM, Hermann; architect; born, Cleveland, Apr. 23, 1879; 
son of Otto and Augusta Eaebel Dercum; educated, Cornell, 1902, 
B. S. (in architecture); 1903, M. S., (in architecture); married, 
Lakewood, Sept. 3, 1910, Carlotta Krause; one son, Max Dercum; 
member firm Dercum & Beer, architects; member Cleveland Chap- 
ter, American Institute of Architects, and Athletic Club. 

DEVEREUX, Henry Kelsey; railway supplies; born, Oct. 10, 
1860; son of Gen. J. H. and Antionnette Kelsey Devereux; edu- 
cated. Brooks Military Academy, Cleveland, scientific course, 
Sheffield College, Yaie, graduating in 1883; married, Mildred Abeel 
French; issue, one son, Julius French, and one daughter, Aileen 
Mildred; civil engineer on the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati R. 
R., located in Cleveland, and engaged in the railroad supply busi- 
ness; mgr. Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Co.; director American 
Sportsman Co. and The Roadside Club; moving spirit in organizing 
the Forest City Live Stock & Fair Co., which built the North 
Randall trotting track; from boyhood, a great lover of horses; 
owner of the celebrated stallion John A. McKerron; pres. The 
Forest City Live Stock & Fair Co.; pres. the Grand Circuit, and 
Gentleman's Driving Clubs, of Cleveland, and League of Amateur 
Driving Clubs and sec'y the American Ass'n of Trotting Horse 
Breeders; head of the leading organizations that control both 
amateur and professional racing; member Delta Psi Fraternity, 
Yale, Country, Roadside and Tavern Clubs; country homes at 
Wickliffe and North Randall. 

DE VOE, Walter; author; born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 
11, 1874; educated at Cedar Rapids; unmarried; teacher and lec- 
turer on new psychology. Author: Healing Currents from the 
Battery of Life, 1904; Mystic Words of Mighty Power, 1905; 
Sacred Science of Regeneration, 1906; The Doors of Life, 1909. 
Frequent contbr. to New Thought, Nautilus, Unity. 

DIEDERICH, Joseph. E.; garage; born, Cleveland, April 5, 1879; 
son of Peter Diederich and Katherine Weixal; educated at Holy 
Trinity School; married at Cleveland, June 7, 1896, to Jeannette 
Youncker; prop, and mgr. Lorain and Clark Ave. Garage; director 
The West 25th Street Supply & Garage Co.; member West Side 
Chamber of Industry, West End Business Men's Association, Gil- 
mour Council, No. 310, Knights of Columbus. 

DIEDRICKS, Carl J.; contractor and builder; son of Frederick 
and Henriette Heinemann; educated Neenberg and Buxtehude 
Technisum; graduated as brewmaster, as competent for government 
work, 1876; married, Harburg, Jan. 20, 1878, Juliana Marian 
Bortz; issue, three sons and three daughters; contractor and 
builder and mnfg. of fly screens and cabinet work. 



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DIETZ, William George; investment banker; born, Warren, O., 
April 7, 1857; son of August A. and Katherine Baehr Dietz; edu- 
cated public school and in the private school of Miss Sackett, in 
Warren; graduated Hiram College, 1881, Ph. B.; married, Solon, 
O., Nov. 18, 1885, Jessie B. Pettibone; one daughter, Marian; 
deputy auditor Trumbull County, 1867-1877; sec'y to Dr. B. A. 
Hinsdale, supt. of the Cleveland public Schools, from September, 
1882, to February, 1886; was one of the first two teachers in the 
night schools of Cleveland; taught news boys; with Lamprecht 
Bros. & Co., bankers, 1886-1893; organized the firm of Dietz, 
Denison & Prior in January, 1893; retired from the firm in 1898; 
sec'y Guarantee Trust Co. in 1898-1900; in business in New York 
from 1900 to 1904; in business in Cleveland, as investment banker, 
from 1905 to date; pres. Eastern Heights Land Co., Elyria, 0.; 
director The Musterole Co. and Cleveland Metal Craft Co.; mem- 
ber Investment Bankers Ass'n of America; trustee Hiram College 
since 1892; trustee Western Eeserve Historical Society; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Union, Euclid and University Clubs. 

DILLON, James K.; assistant general passenger agt. Pennsyl- 
vania E. E.; born, Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 25, 1860; son of Levi and 
Eliza Ann Kelly Dillon; educated, common schools and High 
School, Pittsburgh, Pa.; married, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 5, 1896, 
Edna Virgina Jack; one son, James Edward Dillon, born, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., Oct. 29, 1904; entered E. E. service as clerk of Penn. 
E. E., at Pittsburgh, Oct. 1, 1879; stenographer, passenger dept., 
Penn. Co., 1881; district passenger agt. Penn. Lines, Pittsburgh, 
1897; asst. General passenger agt., Penn. Co., Cleveland, since 
April 1, 1907; member E. A. M. and Elks, Chapter, K. O. T. M., 
and Knights Templar, S. A. E.; member Cleveland Athletic Club. 

DISSETTE, Edward W.; attori.ey-at-law; born, Nov. 3, 1867; son 
of Judge Thomas K. and Sara Fisher Dissette; educated, public 
schools, Cleveland, Brooks Military Academy, Cleveland Law School 
and Baldwin University; married, Ashtabula, O., Feb. 21, 1888, Euth 
D. Morgan; two children, Euth M., and Thomas K., -Jr.; city 
claim agt., 1895-1899; member Cleveland Grays, 1887-1891; 2nd 
lieut. 5th Ohio Infantry, 1886-1899; served with that regiment 
during the Spanish American War, as 2nd lieut.; Eepublican nom- 
inee for judge of the Municipal Court, 1911; actively engaged in 
law practice, since 1902; regarded as authority on law of legal 
property and taxation; director Macoban Eealty Co., Nichols Hat 
Co.; sec'y Blaine Mining & Eeduction Co.; member Cleveland, 
and Ohio State Bar Ass'ns; member firm Dissette, Dissette & Dis- 
sette; member Woodward Lodge, No. 505, F. & A. M., and Mili- 
tary Order of Foreign Wars; member Colonial and Tippecanoe 
Clubs. 



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DLUZYNSKI, Theodore; publisher and editor; born, Poland, 
1866; son of Simon and Dorothia Dluzynski; educated, St. Mary's 
College, Dayton, O.; married, Cleveland, May, 1901, Lotti Milo- 
syenska; three children; worked one year in the post office money 
order department; ten years deputy County Treasurer; sec'y of the 
Polonia in Amuryre Corporation Polish Newspaper, organized 
twenty years ago; after seven years the corporation sold the 
paper to him; is now the sole owner and publisher; has improved 
the publication, increased the circulation; it is read mostly by the 
Polish people in the State of Ohio; has a membership of 7,000; 
sec'y and treas. Eealty & Trust Co.; director "Wanda Furniture 
Co. and Olsty Carriage Co.; trustee of St. Stainslaus Church; sec'y 
Polish Chamber of Industry; vice pres. of Polish Turnvers; member 
of Polish Alliance in the State of Ohio, Polish Catholic Union of 
Ohio, and of the United States, and Polish National Alliance of 
the United States; member Ben Franklin Club and Polish Singing 
Society. 

DODGE, Samuel Douglas; lawyer; born, Cleveland, Aug. 25, 
1885; son of George C. and Lucy A. Burton Dodge; educated pri- 
vate schools of Cleveland, Graylock Institute, at South Williams- 
town, Mass.; graduated from Williams College with degree of B. 
A. in 1877; law course at Columbia University, LL. B., 1879; 
married, Cleveland, Oct. 25, 1882, Miss Jeanette Groif; issue, 
Henry Groff Dodge, born, Oct. 24, 1883, and Miss Janet Dodge; 
entered active law practice in the office of Virgil P. Kline, and 
later in the office of Judge E. J. Blandin; has devoted his time 
to general practice and real estate law; has dealt in real estate 
also; in charge of the business of The Euclid Heights Eealty Co., 
for four years; beginning in 1886, asst. district atty. under appoint- 
ment of President Cleveland; 1890 to 1895, in private practice; 
appointed United States District Atty. under President Cleveland's 
second administration; served until 1900; served two terms on the 
Board of Education; member Chamber of Commerce; member Ohio 
State Board of Pardons since 1905; in 1900, elected sec'y Cleve- 
land Humane Society, filled that position for 7 years; member 
Presbyterian Church, Union, University, Country and Euclid 
Clubs; member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Williams College. 

DOHERTY, Joseph G.; secretary Cleveland Milling Co.; born, 
Detroit, Mich.; educated Detroit public schools; married, Dec. 2, 
1901; two children; secretary and general mngr. Cleveland Milling 
Co.; member Masonic order. Golf preferred recreation. 

DONALDSON, Albert Finney; real estate dealer; born, Charles- 
town, O., Aug. 17, 1889; son of Levi Judson and Margaret Frow 
Donaldson; early education in the district schools of Florida and 
Georgia, later attending Oberlin College at Oberlin, O., took 
gold medal as 1st prize for original oration in Oberlin, 1910; spent 
about two years traveling for Frontier Press Co. of Buffalo, N. Y., 
doing general agency work; went to the Northwest, and engaged 



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in the real estate business in Vancouver, B. C; returned to Cleve- 
land, and established the firm of Heintz & Donaldson, specializing 
in the sale of East End property; dissolved that partnership in 
May, 1913; now doing successful business under name of A. F. 
Donaldson, at east 105th St.; member Cleveland Eeal Estate Board. 

DONOVAN, James; manufacturer; born. Corning, N. Y., Jan. 15, 
1867; son of John and Mary Leary Donovan; educated, Parochial 
School, Corning, N. Y.; married, Cleveland, Nov. 23, 1903, Evelyn 
Berry; in 1884, entered the employ of "The Fair" Department 
Store in Corning, a few years later, removed to Auburn, N. Y., 
taking charge of a store in that city for the same company; 1894, 
came to Cleveland, and engaged in his present business of manu- 
facturing typewriter ribbons and carbon papers; pres. The Buck- 
eye Eibbon and Carbon Co.; member Chamber of Commerce. 

DONOVAN, Michall F.; manufacturer; born. Corning, N. Y., 
1863; son of John and Mary Leary Donovan; educated, Corning, 
N. Y. ; married, Auburn, N. Y., 1905, Margaret Holmes; learned 
the printer's trade, starting when 14, and worked at it for eight 
years, working in large cities of New York State, Syracuse, Al- 
bany, Troy and New York City; became interested in the manu- 
facture and sale of typewriting machines in 1885; in 1892, started 
the making of typewriter ribbons in Cleveland; later added the 
making of carbon papers; sec'y and treas. The Buckeye Ribbon 
and Carbon Co.; member Cleveland Credit Men's Ass'n. 

DOUD, Arthur Nathan; civil engineer; born, New York, 1872; 
son of George C. and Martha Dunbar Doud; graduated High School, 
Winthrop, N. Y., class of 1895; took three years special engineering 
course at Clarkson Technical School, Potsdam, N. Y., finished there 
in 1900; married, Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1901, Nellie M. Wilson; 
two daughters; followed surveying and engineering work in New 
York state for three years; then engaged on the hydro-electric de- 
velopment on the St. Lawrence River; for two years and nine months 
member of the engineering corps, War Dept., U. S. Army, as chief 
of field party on location survey of forks and dams on the Ohio 
River, and in charge of lock construction until Oct., 1906; was 
for some time with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., on the con- 
struction of the New York Terminal of The Pennsylvania Rail- 
road; from Sept. 1, 1911, to the present time, mngr. of the Acme 
Equipment & Engineering Co., manufacturers of Doud handling 
equipment; member Cleveland Engineering Society and National 
Geographical Society; member Brasher Lodge, No. 541, F. & A. M., 
Brasher Falls, N. Y. Recreation: Hunting. Inventor and pat- 
enter of the Doud Steel Buckets and Cars for handling concrete 
and excavating machinery. 



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DOVE, Herman E.; automobile business; born, Port Huron, 
Mich., Dec. 14, 1875; son of James H. and Winifred Dove; edu- 
cated Alpena, Mich., High School; married, Lansing, Mich., Feb. 
28, 1906, Ursula E. Ackerman; corporal Company B, 33rd Mich. 
Volunteers; service in Cuba in 1898; five and one-half years in 
clothing business in Alpena, Mich.; started as errand boy and left 
as head salesman; was called out from there for service in the 
Spanish- American War; in October, 1899, left the clothing busi- 
ness, engaging in the manufacture of sugar with the Bay City 
Sugar Co.; in this business until 1908, removing from Bay City to 
Lansing in 1901, to take a position with the Lansing Sugar Co., 
later known as The Owosso Sugar Co.; as the sugar business did 
not offer a large field for advancement, went with the Buick Auto- 
mobile Co. of Flint, Mich.; still connected with the company as 
mngr. Cleveland Branch; during the automobile panic of 1910, 
resided in Salt Lake City, taking charge of the Eandall-Dodd Co.; 
handled their business for 15 months, putting it on a safe and 
sane basis, and it still exists as a prosperous distributing agency; 
returned to Flint, Mich., in October 1911, and from there came to 
Cleveland, taking the management of the Cleveland branch of the 
Buick Motor Car Co.; Mason, Knights of Pythias and Y. M. C. A. 
affiliations, member Automobile and Business Men's Club of the 
Y. M. C. A. Recreations : Hunting, Fishing and General Out-Door 
Sports. 

DOWNIE, William; master painter; born, Cleveland, 1874; son 
of William and Margarite McLaughlan Downie; married, Warren, 
O.; 1896, Cora Evarts Green; issue, two sons; pres. Wm. Downie 
Co. and Downie Real Estate Co.; sec'y and treas. Whittle, Downie 
Sign Co., vice pres. Panama-Pacific Exposition Tour Co.; member 
Chamber of Commerce (member municipal committee), Clan Grant, 
Eoyal Arcanum (past regent), St. Andrew's Society, Manufac- 
turers' and Dealers' Ass'n, International Master Painters' and 
Decorators' Ass'n, Cleveland Athletic, Colonial, Cleveland Adver- 
tising, Rotary Clulas, Automobile Owners Ass'n. 

DRAKE, Edward A.; born, Jamestown, N. Y.; Dec. 13, 1871; 
sen of William D. and Ora Maria Wheeler Drake; B. S., Case 
School of Applied Science; married, Cleveland, O., Nov. 21, 1898, 
Georgia A. Adams; two children; 1895, started as a traveling 
representative for Drake & Weis Co.; now general mgr. of The 
Drake & Weis Co.; sec'y the W. D. Drake Co.; pres. The Colonial 
Investment Co.; member Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and Presby- 
terian Church. 

DRAPER, Charles Thomas; mfr.; born, Cleveland, Nov. 26, 1855; 
son of Thomas George and Celestia Converse Draper; educated in 
Cleveland schools; married, Cleveland, Sept. 20, 1881; Florence H. 
Rossiter; three children; began manufacture of tin cans in 187'5; 
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organized the Draper Mfg. Co., steel barrels, of which he is pres. 
and gen'l mgr.; trustee Woodland Avenue M. E. Church; mem- 
ber Y. M. C. A., Chamber of Commerce; Mason. 

DEEW, Frank M.; mgr. Star Theater; born, New York City, 
June 30, 1852; son of Frank N. and Louisa M. Drew; educated, 
public schools, Philadelphia, Pa.; Military Academy at Village 
Green, Pa.; married, 1885, Blanche C. CoUar'd, of Wyandotte, Mich.: 
issue, six children; actor for two years, following the profession 
in New York City; sixeen years, in the circus business; conducted 
museums in Providence, Columbus, Cleveland and Indianapolis; in 
1883, built the Cleveland Theater and became connected with Mr. 
Campbell in conducting playhouses in various places; leased 
Colonial theater in Cleveland and subject to Ray F. Comstock; 
member Elks and Masonic Bodies; fine summer home at Girard, 
Penn. 

DRXJCKER, Ralph M.; business broker, born New York City, 
Jan. 11, 1876; son of Louis and Augusta Drucker; educated, 
Bronnell and Rockwell schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 
1900, Miss Carrie Reilly; director The Crooks-Whigam Co.; mem- 
ber The Cleveland Automobile and Automobile Country Clubs. 
Recreations: Motoring, Baseball and Golf. 

DUETEMEYER, Henry August; cabinetmaker; born, Essen, Ger- 
many, Dec. 24, 1857; son of Frederick and A. Gerkepotte Duete- 
mj'er; educated, Lutheran parochial school in Essen (Wittlage), 
Hannover; married, Cleveland, Jan. 21, 1890, Elizabeth Flick, of 
Parma, O.; in October, 1886, started, with C. L. Kaufman, a fur- 
niture and undertaking business, under the firm name of Duete- 
myer & Kaufman, cor. Myer Ave. and Pearl St.; retired from same 
in 1907; in 1905, took an interest in The National Tool Co.; vice 
pres., sec'y and treas. of the company since 1910; vice pres. South 
Side German Building Ass'n for thirteen years. 

DUFF, Harry Elm.er; manufacturer; born, Bloomington, 111., July 
23, 1873; son of Jos. G. and Mary Ellen Lowdon Duff; graduated 
from the University of Tennessee, in 1893, taking Bachelor of 
Arts degree; in 1902, graduated from the New York Law School, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; in 1894, came to Ohio, and 
became identified in a manufacturing business, which a few years 
later was purchased by the American Sheet Tin Plate Co.; since 
that time, .has been continuously associated with that corpora- 
tion; local sales representative of the American Sheet & Tin Plate 
Co.; vice pres. Union Metal Mfg. Co.; Canton, O.; member Mt. 
Olive Chapter, No. 189, Eoyal Arch Masons; Forest City Com- 
mandery. No. 40, Knights Templar; member University, Athletic 
and Manufacturer's Clubs. 



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DUFFEY, Bernard T.; insurance; born, Rockford, 111., July 5, 
1869; educated, public schools of Rockford; married, Beloit, Wis., 
August 15, 1892, Lilliau Knapp; married, Chicago, 111., June 15, 
1910, Bertha Agues Xye; children, Bernard P., Jr., John Nye; en- 
gaged in fire insurance with Rockford Insurance Co., Rockford, 
111., 1887, continuing with that company until 1900; then with 
Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., of Liverpool, England; now state agent 
in Ohio for that company; member Cleveland Athletic Club. 

DUNCAN, B. M.; attorney; born, Millersburg, O., June 30, 
1879; son of John and Isabel Jameson Duncan; educated, St. 
Laurence University and Ohio State University, law course; mem- 
ber of firm Howell, Roberts & Duncan; member Alpha Tau Omega, 
Phi Delta Phi (Law) and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. 

DUNCAN, William McKinley; lawyer; born, Pittsburg, Pa., May 
19, 1873; son of Andrew J. and Sarah McKinley Duncan; edu- 
cated, public schools Pittsburg, Pa., and Rayen High school, 
Youngstown, O., and Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; married, 
Youngstown, O., Oct. 18, 1899, Viola Deetrick; issue, three sons; 
admitted to bar, October, 1894; associated with Squire, Sanders 
& Dempsey ever since; became member of firm, January, 1911; 
representing Eastern Trunk Railroad in the engineer arbitration; 
receiver of the Wheeling & Lake Erie R. R. Co.; member Union, 
Athletic, Mayfield and Hermit Clubs. 

DUNHAM, Wilbur; real estate development; born, Columbus, 
O., Jan. 30, 1885; son of John M. and T. Anna Cross Dunham; 
educated, Taft School, Watertown, Conn.; Andover Academy, 
Andover, Mass.; Yale Universitj', New Haven, Conn.; married, 
Columbus, O., Oct. 17, 1906, Marian M. Hobart; two daughters, 
Ann Elizabeth, born 1909, and Aileen, born 1913; real estate 
allotment and building development business since leaving col- 
lege in 1904, in Columbus, O., and New York City, and Cleveland 
since, 1912; pres. The Wilbur Dunham Co., The Continental Realty 
Co.; director The House Building «Ss Investment Co.; member Delta 
Phi Fraternity, Yale and P. A. E. Society, Andover Academy; 
member Union, Athletic, and Roadside Clubs. Recreation: Work. 

DUBELL, George B.; manufacturer; born, New Jersey, Sept. 27, 
1861; son of Edward H. and Hannah A. Woodward Durell; edu- 
cated, Princeton University, A. B., 1885; married, Harriman, Tenn., 
June, 1893, Generiere Hill; issue, George Edward. Gladys, Kath- 
ryn; sec 'y Chattanooga Tool Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.; gen. mgr. 
Chattanooga Tool Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.; gen. mgr. Harriman 
Hoe & Tool Co., Harriman, Tenn.; pres. Harriman Hoe & Tool Co., 
Harriman, Tenn.; pres. Manufacturer's National Bank, Harri- 
man, Tenn.; vice pres. and treas. American Fork & Hoe Co.; 
director Citizens Savings & Trust Co.; pres. Eagle Coal Co.; vice 
pres. United States Handle Co.; member Union, Euclid, and Wil- 
lowick Clubs. 



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DUTY, Spencer Marcus; brick business; born, Cleveland, Sept. 
28, 1878; son of Daniel and Sarah L. Cozad Duty: common and 
High School education in Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Dec. 12, 
1905, Mabel Cummer; one son, Spencer Cummer Duty; pres. The 
Deckman-Duty Brick Co.; director The National Belting Co.; The 
F. D. Cummer & Son Co.; member The National Paving Brick 
Mnfg. Ass'n, Chamber of Commerce and Athletic Club. 

DYER, J. Milton; architect; born, Middletown, Pa., 1870; son 
of Cyrus and Eliza Dyer; educated. Central High School and Case 
School of Applied Science, Cleveland; Technique Hoch Schule, 
Berlin; Ecole des Beaux Arts; Paris; took degree in 1900; has de- 
signed Cleveland City Hall, buildings at Cooley Farms, Warrens- 
ville; Summit and Lake County Court Houses; Central National 
Bank; First M. E. Church; The Guardian Savings & Trust Co.; 
First National Bank; The Tavern Club; The William Taylor Sons 
& Co. 's store and arcade; The Sterling & Welch Co. store, and 
many other important buildings and residences; among the latter 
being those of Lyman F. Treadway, Loftus Cuddy, J. L. Sever- 
ance, J. M. Pickands, and E. S. Burke, Jr.; member of the Society 
Beaux and Arts, Architects, and of Groupe American, Societe des 
Architectes, Diplomex par le Gouvernment Fraucais; fellow of 
American Institute of Architects; member Phi Kappa Psi Frater- 
nity, Chamber of Commerce, American Civic Ass 'n, Union, Hermit, 
Tavern, University, Euclid and Athletic Clubs. 

DYKE, Frank L.; business college; born. North East, Pa., Oct. 
2, 1865; son of L. J. and Lucinda Stetson Dyke; high schools and 
some college training in Pennsylvania and Ohio; married, Cleve- 
land, June 22, 1887, Ada E. Brown; two daughters, Lucy M. and 
Ruth E.; after teaching in public schools and business colleges 
for nine years, the institution now known as the Dyke School 
of Business, was established in 189.3; began business in the Cuya- 
hoga Bldg. ; later moved to the Pythian Temple, and in 1902, to 
its present location in the Browning Bldg., on East 9th St., 
occupying 12,000 square feet of space; proprietor The Dyke School 
of Business; member Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile 
Club. 

EATON, Cyrus S.; public utility work; born. Nova Scotia; edu- 
cated, Woodstock College, Ontario; McMaster's University, To- 
ronto, degree of B. A.; married, Cleveland, 1908, Margaret House; 
three children; organizer and operator of public utility properties; 
pres. continental Gas & Electric Corporation, and The Canada 
Gas & Electric Co., Beasdot Gas & Power Co.; member firm Abbott 
& Eaton, engineers and operators; director Washington, Balti- 
more & Annapolis Electric R. R.; also officer and director in more 
than a score of other gas, electric-lighting, street railway and 
water companies, in the United States and Canada; member Unionj 
Colonial and Athletic Clubs. 



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EBERSOLE, wniiam George; dentist; M. D. and D. D. S.; born, 
Carrollton, O., Nov. 18, 1864; son of John E. and Nancy Lyons 
Ebersole; educated, Grammar and High Gchool of Carrollton; Ohio 
Norman University at Ada O.; spent a year and a half in the 
study of law; Western Keserve University, both medical and den- 
tal courses; married, Dec. 17, 1890, Carrollton, O., Miss Ora Stem- 
pie; one son, Carl Haman, born Oct. 19, 1896; in October, 1898, 
began the practise of dentistry in Cleveland; two and one-half 
years demonstrator of operative dentistry at Western Keserve 
University; 1898-1899 and a part of 1900, lecturer on Oral Surgery 
at Western Eeserve University; paramount interest, development 
of humanitarian dentistry; prominent in introducing into the 
public schools a system of dental inspection and educational 
lectures; member the Cleveland Dental Society, The Academy of 
Medicine, Northern Ohio Dental Ass'n, National Ass'n and The 
Ohio State Dental Ass'n; member Chamber of Commerce; Colonial 
Club; Eepubliean; member Windimere Presbyterian Church. 

EDMONDSON, George Mountain; photographer; born, Norwalk, 
O., Aug. 23, 1866; son of George W. Edmondson; educated, pub- 
lic schools of Norwalk, O.; at the age of 14, took up the study of 
photography; worked in his father's gallery till 18S7; came to 
Cleveland, at the request of James F. Eyder, to become asst. 
operator for him; learned the knowledge of enlarging on the then 
new bromide paper, and won several prizes for work done; after 
six years, went to the Decker & Wilbur Studio, and in six years 
succeeded to the business, and soon established a studio on Euclid 
Ave.; specialties, color photography and home portraiture; pres. 
of the Photographer's Association of Ohio, and in 1902, pres. of 
the Photographer's Ass'n of America; sec'y and treas. Profes- 
sional Photographer's Society of Ohio, and a member of the New 
York Society; member Chamber of Commerce, Lakewood Yacht, 
and Athletic Clubs; member Unitarian Church. 

EDSON, Willis Scott; publisher and mfgr.; born, Chicago, 111., 
May 17, 1868; son of John Milton and Elizabeth Maria Swales 
Edson; educated, Chicago public schools and University of Chi- 
cago Academy; married, Chicago, 111., Oct. 9, 1894, Gertrude 
Eugenia Haight; six children, Margaret J., age 18; Willis S., Jr., 
age 12; Gilbert H., age 5; Francis S., age 16, Gertrude E., age 
9, and Harvey O., age 2; early training and career in editorial 
work, serving successively as department editor, telegraph news 
editor, and special feature writer; became managing editor of the 
trade journals. The Western Publisher, and The Publishers' Aux- 
iliary, in 1906; traveling salesman Western Newspaper Union, 
1909; mngr. Western Newspaper Union, Cleveland Branch, since 
1911; also manufacturer of stereotype plate; member Western New 
York Newspaper Publishers Co.; Associate Ohio Dailies, Buckeye 
Press Ass'n, Municipal Ass'n of Cleveland; membtr Chicago Press 
Club, Cleveland Advertising Club, and Chamber of Commerce. 
Eeereation: Sports. 



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EDWARDS, Ralph Wigmore; boru at Cardiff, Wales, Feb. 1, 
1879; son oi Morgan and Fanny Wigmore Edwards; was brought 
to the United States iu 1885; removing to Cleveland, Ohio, after 
some years' residence in New York City; studied law at the Cleve- 
land Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1901, and has Since 
p»-actised law at Cleveland, being a member of the firm of Geier, 
Farreil & Edwards; Democrat, in 1910, was elected a member of 
the House of Kepresentatives of the 79th General Assembly; in 
February, 1912, he was appointed a member of the Board of Civil 
Service Commissioners of the City of Cleveland; member Chamber 
of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic Club, City Club. 

EELLS, Howard Parmelee; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, June 

16, 1855; sou of Dan P. and May M. Howard Eells; A. B., Hamil- 
ton College, 1876; A. B., Harvard University, 1877; married, Cleve- 
land, April 20, 1881, Alice Maude-Overton; issue two children; 
second marriage, Cleveland, Nov. 11, 1889, Maud Stager; issue, 
five children; Kepublican; pres. 1896-1911, and now chairman of 
board, Bucyrus Company, manufacturers of dredges, steam shovels, 
etc.; said company furnishing three-fourths of the excavating 
machinery used in the construction of the Panama Canal; pres. 
Atchison & Eastern Bridge Co., Chicago Drop Forge & Foundry Co., 
Harlan Stone Co., New England Bldg. Co.; director Superior Sav- 
ings & Trust Co., and National City Bank, Cleveland, and Portland 
Cement Co., Sandusky, O.; pres. National Metal Trades Ass'n, 
1909-1910 (trustee 1908-1912), treag. and trustee Cleveland Humane 
Society; treas. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, and Western 
Reserve University; University School, Lake View Cemetery Ass'n 
Childrens' Aid Society, Second Presbyterian Church, Cleveland 
Art School; member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and Union, Uni- 
versity, Country, Tavern, Roadside, Athletic, Rowfant, Chagrin 
Valley Hunt, Mayfield Country Clubs, of Cleveland; Chicago Club, 
Chicago; University and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs, New York. 

EICHELBERGES, George Hamilton; lawyer; born, Urbana, O,, 
Jan. 24, 1877; son of George M. and Emma Ring Eichelberger; 
educated, Ohio Weslyan University; married, New York City, 
Aug. 11, 18908; Frances Staunton Dodge; one daughter; United 
States Marshal at Shanghai, China, 1897-1900; tmce coming to 
Cleveland, connected with 5th Ohio Infantry as battalion adjt.; 
practiced law in Cleveland since 1901, (Reed & Eichelberger); 
Mason; member Union, Athletic, and Euclid Clubs. Recreation: 
Golf. 

EIOHHOEN, Charles Henry; banker; born, Racine, Wis., Jan. 

17, 1859; sou of Jacob and Clara Elizabeth Behring Eichhcrn; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools, graduated from West High, in 
1879; married, Cleveland, June 27, 1894, Lulu J. Challacombe; 
one son, 9 years old; taught school Delray, Mich., 1879 to 1882; 
Cleveland public schools, 1882-1886; sec'y to supt. of Schools, 1886- 
1892; sec'y The Brooklyn Building & Lo^n Ass'n Co., 1892 to 



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present date; casliier The State Banking & Trust Co.; director 
The Masonic Temple Ass'n; 33rd° Mason; Past Grand Commander, 
Knight Templars of Ohio; 1st Lieut. Commander Lake Erie Con- 
sistory, S. P. E. S.; for nearly thirty years, active in Masonic 
affairs of the city and state. 

EINSTEIN, Herman; merchant; born, Germany, May 14, 1855; 
educated in the public schools of Germany; came to this country 
in 1873, taking a business college course after his arrival; has 
been with the same firm since, first as clerk, bookkeeper, sales- 
man; in 1881, became a partner Ullman-Einstein Co.; 1904, the 
company was incorporated, and he was elected sec'y; in 1912, be- 
came pres. and treas. of company; director National Flue Cleaner 
Co.; treas. Mt. Siani Hospital; member Berai Barith Order, Cleve- 
land Chamber of Commerce; treas. Hebrew Loan Ass'n; member 
Federation of Jewish Charities; belongs to Excelsior Club and the 
55th St. Temple. 

EINSTEIN, Jacob Leopold; sec'y The Ullman-Einstein Co., born, 
Cleveland Aug. 16, 1876; educated in Cleveland public schools, 
Central High and Case School; married, Ruth P. Wiener, Cleveland, 
Oct. 21, 1903; issue, three children, Paul, Edith and Jane; member 
board of control National Wholesale Liquor Dealer's Association 
and board of governors Excelsior Club; trustee Ohio Wine and 
Spirit Association and Monteflor Home for the Old; member B. 
P. O. E., Excelsior and Oakwood Clubs. 

EIRICK, William F.; born, Albany, N. Y., May 12, 1872; edu- 
cated in the Albany and New York City public schools; with an 
export commission house. Wall St., N. Y., for several years; came 
to Cleveland in 1890, and entered the live stock business; com- 
missioner of Cuyahoga county in 1903, youngest man ever elected 
to this position in the county; member Union, League, P. B. O. E., 
No. 18; treas. F. O. E., No. 125, 1902-1903; Republican; member 
Lutheran Church. 

ELLIS, John Warfield; mfg. chemist; born, Princeton, 111., Aug. 
28, 1877; son of John and Ella H. Gary Ellis; educated at North- 
western University; married, Cleveland Oct. 18, 1909, Mildred L. 
Furness; one son, born Feb. 6, 1911; pres. and mgr. Prescott 
Chemical Co.; genl. mgr. Chemical Supply Co.; member Beta Theta 
Pi, Iris Lodge, F. & A. M., Webb Chapter, R. A. M., Chamber of 
commerce, Cleveland Athletic and Euclid Clubs. 

ELLSWORTH, Ralph H.; pres. The Arnold Wooden Ware Co.; 
born, Sept. 18, 1874, West Richfield, O.; high school and Spencerian 
Business College; married, Cleveland, Oct. 16, 1896, Emily H. 
Oviatt; traveling salesman Arnold Wooden Ware Co. eighteen 
years; elected pres. of company, 1911; member Chamber of Com- 
merce, Cleveland Commercial Travelers, Halcyon Lodge, F. & A. 
M.; Thatcher Chapter, Forest City Commandery, K. T. 



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EMEBMAN, Maxwell Vernon; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, 
Nov. 17, 1867; son of Benjamin and Lena Luntz Emerman; edu- 
cated, public schools, Central High School 1905, and University 
of Michigan, 1908, degree LL. B.; married, Baltimore Md., Nov. 
3, 1912; member executive committee Progressive Republican 
party, Cuyahoga county, 1912; sec 'y and treas. The Esplande 
Apartments Co.; sec'y North American Export Co.; director Ohio 
Adjustment Co., Weger Motor Co., Akron Scrap Iron Co., Akron, 
O.; general counsel Erie Iron & Steel Co., Erie, Pa.; member 
Cleveland Shakespeare Club, and Knights of Pythias. 

EMEBSON, Oliver Parrar; university professor; born, Traer, 
la., May 24, 1860; son of Oliver and Maria Farrar Emerson; A. B., 
Iowa College, 1882, A. M., 1885; Ph. D., Cornell University, 1891; 
married, Annie L. Logan, of St. Louis, Sept. 24, 1891; supt. 
schools, Grinnell, la., 1882-1884, Muscatine, la., 1884-1885; prin. 
Academy of Iowa College, 1885-1888; Goldwin Smith fellow in 
English, 1888-1889, instru. in English, 1889-1891; asst. prof, rhetoric 
and English philology, 1892-1896, Cornell University; prof. English, 
Western Reserve University, since 1896; member Modern Language 
Ass'n America, American Dialect Society (pres., 1905). Autlior: 
History of the English Language, 1894; A Brief History of the 
English Language, 1896; Middle English Reader, 1905; Outline 
History of the English Language, 1906. Editor: Johnson's 
Rasselas, 1905; Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward 
Gibbon, 1898; Poems of Chancer, 1911. Contributor to Modern 
Language Notes, Dialect Notes, Publications of Modern Langu- 
age Ass'n, Modern Philology, Journal of Germanic Philology, 
Anglia, etc. 

EMEBSON, Sam W.; contracting engineer; born, Cleveland, O.; 
educated. Case School of Applied Science, B. S. and C. S.; married, 
Cleveland, Florence J. Taylor; two children; contracting engineer 
engaged in reinforced concrete work; pres. and treas. Sam W. 
Emerson Co., Emerson Realty Co.; pres. Ohio Epsilon Co.; member 
Cleveland Engineering Society, Phi Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Phi Fra- 
ternities; member Cleveland Athletic Club, Chamber of Commerce 
and Builders' Exchange. 

ENGEL, Budolph Carl; physician and surgeon; born, Cleveland, 
June 19, 1879; son of Fred* C. and Mary C. Heimberger Engel; 
educated, Cleveland public schools, Cleveland College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, and Medical Dept. Ohio Wesleyau University, 
Doctor of Medicine, 1902; married, Cleveland, June 11, 1902, Miss 
Mary Sheka; two sons, Walter Alfred and Alvin Ralph Engel; 
surgeon to River Furnace Co. and River Steel Mill, special exam- 
iner Police and Fire Depts., January, 1912; surgeon-in-chief, Uni- 
form Rank, Knights of Pythias of Cuyahoga County; medical 
examiner, Cuyahoga Lodge, K. of P.; member Cleveland Academy 
of Medicine and Ohio State Medical Ass'n. Recreations: Motor- 
ing and Baseball. 



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ENGLANDER, Louis; attorney-at-law; born, Toledo, O., Jan. 
26, 1883; son of Herman and Bertha Dallet Englander; educated, 
Adelbert College, Western Eeserve Law School, A. B. and LL. B. 
degrees; married, Cleveland, April 16, 1912; associated with Hen- 
derson, Quail & Siddall for two years; now Lead of the firm of 
Englander & Bowden; pres. 'me Cuyahoga Fire-Proofing Co.; sec'y 
The Contractors & Investment Co., and The E. H. Bryant Co.; 
sec'y and treas. The Cuyahoga Kiver Power Co., and The Bolivar 
Bldg. Co.; director The Bolton-Pratt Co.. The Weaver-Twelvetree 
Co.; The Cleveland Engraving Agency Co., The Max Glick Co.; 
member Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Ass'ns; member Alpha Tau 
Omega Fraternity, and Cleveland Athletic Club. 

ENGLISH, Virgil P.; physician; born, Salem county, N. J., 
Jan. 8, 1858; son of Enos P. and Mary Finlaw ^English; public 
school education; admitted to Kansas bar, 1883; graduated 
Phrenol. Institute, New York, 1886; M. D., Homeopathic Hospital 
Medical College, Cleveland, O., 1892; married, Minnie Ghent of 
Frankfort, Ind., March 5, 1891; taught school for several years; 
practiced lav/ a short time; traveled from New York to Los 
Angeles, lecturing on phrenology, hygiene, etc., 1886-1892; in 
practice as specialist, nervous diseases and diseases of women, 
since 1892, propr. Ohio State Pub. Co., Power & Poise Pub. Co.; 
editor Power and Poise (magazine); Eepublican, member Human 
Culture Society (pres. since 1908). Author The Doctor's Plain 
Talk to Young Men, 1895; The Mind and Its Machinery, 1901; 
The Doctor's Plain Talk to Young Women, 1902; Mental Physical 
Culture, 1906; has written a number of booklets relating to life 
and its possibilities. 

ENSIGN, Theodore; milk business; borti, Chester, O., March 
26, 1882; son of George L. and Celia M. Foster Ensign; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Cept. 22, 1909, Clara 
Zarnoio; foreman City Ice Delivery Co. for four years; gen. mgr. 
of Lake City Ice Co. for two years; vice pres. of the Milk Deal- 
ers' Fraternal League. Eecreations: Motoring and Music. In 
the last year the quality of the milk and methods of doing business 
have doubled tneir business. 

ENWEIGHT, Roger C; broker; born, Belle vue, 0., and edu- 
cated in the public schools, formerly connected with the Mcintosh- 
Huntington Co., wholesale hardware as treas. and credit man; after 
several years spent in New York City and Eeading, Pa., as 
manufacturer's agents, returned to Cleveland, in 1900, and en- 
gaged in the brokerage business with Borton & Borton; member 
Cleveland Stock Exchange and member Board of Governors; 
Chamber of Commerce, Euclid, Century, and Hermit Clubs; Ee- 
publican. 



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ERNST, A. C; public accountant; born, Cleveland, son of John 
C and Mary Hertel Ernst; public school, high school and business 
college education; married, Cleveland, June 24, 1903, Charlotte 
Fawcett; one daughter, Euth, born Nov. 28, 1906; managing 
partner of Ernst & Ernst, certified public accountants; appointed 
auditors of City of Cleveland to examine the account of Cleve- 
land Eailroad Co., during Baker's administration; first auditor 
appointed in such a capacity; have established offices in New York, 
Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Cleveland; firm rating as one 
of the leading accounting firms in the country; Attorney General 
in Columbus api^oiuted him to examine a large number of banks; 
he did the examining of the Cincinnati Trust Co. (Cox) bank, 
which resulted in notorious disclosure; appointed see'y of Eed 
Cross Ohio Flood Eelief Commission by Gov. Cox; director Osboru 
Mnfg. Co., Ohio Eubber Co., Service Eecorder Co., and Bean Spray 
Pump Co.; member Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants; 
trustee Y. W. C. A.; chairman finance committee of Co-operative 
Employment Bureau for Girls; member committee of management of 
Y. M. C. A.; member Union and Athletic Clubs, Cleveland, and 
Chamber of Commerce, Automobile Club of America, New York; 
Business Mens' Club, Cincinnati; Toledo Club, Toledo, O. 

ESHELMAN, Oriel D.; lawyer; born, Ashland, O.; sou of 
David and Harriett Landis Eshelman; educated, Cleveland and 
country public schools. West High, German Wallace College and 
Ohio Northern University, B. S. and LL. B.; admitted to the bar, 
June, 1909; began practice in Cleveland, August, 1909; not con- 
nected with any law firm; director Cleveland Tie Binder; sec'y 
City Moving & Transfer Co.; director Motor Van Delivery Co.; 
treas. Interstate Adjustment Co.; member Dover Lodge, F. & A. 
M., Mount Olive Chapter, Geyer Lodge, K. of P., West Side 
Chamber of Industry, West End Business Mens' Ass'n; general 
practice and commercial law. 

EVERETT, Henry A.; capitalist; born, Cleveland, Oct. 16, 1866; 
educated, public and private schools, Cleveland; pres. Toledo 
Eailways & Light Co., Northern Ohio Traction & Light Co., Lon- 
don St. E. E., London, Can.; chairman board of the Detroit United 
E. E. ; interested in numerous corporations, telephone and traction 
companies; member Union, Euclid, Centurv, Colonial, and Electric 
Clubs. 

EVERETT, Sylvester T.; financier; born. Liberty, 0., Nov. 27, 
1838; son of Henry and Sarah von Pheil Everett; early education 
in district schools and Cleveland public schools; married, first 
time, January, 1860, Miss Mary Everett of Philadelphia; issue 
four children; second marriage, Oct. 22, 1879, Alice Louise Wade 
issue, two sons and three daughters; one of the sons. Homer, de 
ceased; business career, messenger boy, clerk, supt. Oil Company 
in Pennsylvania, 1868; came back to Cleveland, in banking posi 
tion, 1876; vice pres. and gen. mgr. Second National Bank; pres 



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until 1882; founded National Bank of Commerce; retired from 
banking business in 1900, to devote time to private interests; in- 
terested Cleveland Rolling Mill Co., Little Consolidated Street 
R. R. Co., and the Cleveland Railway Co.; promoted and built 
many street and electric railroads; director the Citizens Savings 
& Trust Co.; large mining interests in North Carolina, Wisconsin 
and Michigan; prominent figure in Republican politics in the state 
and city; for fourteen years was city treasurer; owns several 
country homes. Recreations: Travel, Riding, Driving and Motor- 
ing in this country and Europe. 

EVEES, William H.; civil engineer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 18, 
1871; son of Henry C. and Elizabeth Metzger Evers; graduated 
from the public schools of Cleveland with a scholarship to Case 
School of Applied Science; married, Cleveland, Sept. 17, 1895, 
Ottilie H. Niemam; three children, Julie, Esther, and Willie; 
county engineer of Cuyahoga county from 1899 to 1906; pres. The 
W. H. Evers Engineering Co. and The Concrete Flooring Co.; 
member Ohio Engineering Society and Cleveland Engineering 
Society; member of the Lutheran Church. 

EWING, Frank H.; attorney-at-law; born. Alliance, O., Nov. 5, 
1868; son of William H. and Margaret C. McDonal Ewing; 
graduated Alliance High School, 1887, Mt. Union College, 1890. 
degree LL. B. Western Reserve University, 1901; married. Alli- 
ance, Jan. 4, 1894, Martha Hoiles; one son, Frank H. Ewiug, Jr.; 
asst. treas. of Stark County, 1890-1894; asst. county auditor Stark 
county, 1894-1896; pres. Alliance Board of Equalization, 1896-1897; 
chairman Democratic city and county executive committee, 1896- 
1897; pres. City of Canton and Stark County Board of Elections, 
1898-1901; pres. The Euclid Plastering Co.; director The Harwood 
Lumber Co., The Cordial Parma Co., The Brown International 
Turbine Co., and The Ajax Plastering Co.; sec'y and treas. The I. 
X. L. Ladder Co., The Luxe Realty Co., and The Ivanhoe Grocery 
Co.; member Biglow No. 243, F. & A. M., Webb Chapter, No. 14, 
R. A. M., Al Sirat, No. 17, M. O. V. P. E. R., No. 6.S, Cleveland 
Lodge, L. L. O. M., Banner Lodge No. 668, K. & L. of H.; Look- 
out Camp, Sons ot Veterans; Commercial Travelers, L. and A. 
Ass'n. 

EWING, Harrison W.; attorney-at-law; born, Milton, Mahoning 
county, O., July 26, 1874; son of Harrison J. and M. Patterson 
Ewing; educated, Cleveland Central High School, 1892, Adelbert 
College, 1893 and 1894, special St. Louis Law School, Washington 
University, 1896, Law School, Western Reserve University, 1897- 
1899, LL. B., 1899; married, Cleveland, June 27, 1903, Elmyra C. 
Lucas; one daughter, Marjorie Gaile Ewing, born .Tune, 1905; ad- 
mitted to the bar, June, 1899; law firm H. J. & H. W. Ewing, 
1899-1903; Ewing, Neiding & Kramer, 1905-1909; Ewing, Kramer 
& Counts, 1909-1912; Dawley, Ewing, Counts & Terrell, 1912 to 
date; director Hanna Moving & Storage Co.; member Cleveland 



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Bar Ass'n; B. P. O. Elks, past exalted ruler Cleveland Lodge, 1904; 
Knights Pythias, Biglow Lodge, F. & A. M., Thatcher Chapter, 
R. A. M.; member Ranney Chapter Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity; 
member Lakewood Yacht Club. Recreations: Hunting and 
Fishing. 

EXOELL, Matthew B.; attorney; born, July 13, 1869, Jackson, 
M,ich.; son of John Wesley and Emily Tayler Excell; educated, 
Cleveland public schools and Central High School, graduated Mt. 
Union College, 1888, Ph. B., 1891; married, Oct. 3, 1894, Maud M. 
Amerman of Alliance, O.; one son, Allen J., born May 14, 1896; 
while at college wrote for the Alliance Leader, later became its 
editor; in 1892, was elected mayor of Alliance; studied law, was 
admitted to the bar, and came to Cleveland in 1894; asst. director 
of law for the city, 1899-1901; Democrat; has served as pres. of 
the Board of Public Safety; member Euclid Ave. Methodist 
Church; member of its Mens' Club; member Athletic, Whist and 
Crank and Sociology Clubs, and the Chamber of Commerce, Cuya- 
hoga County and Ohio State Bar Association. 

FAEH, Alexander Cyril; advertising mgr.; born, Cleveland, 
Feb. 18, 1876; son of Louis and Josephine Haider Faeh; educated 
St. Mary's Parochial School, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Feb. 
20, 1909, Anna F. Rudolph; left school at 12 years of age; entered 
the shoe business in Cleveland; identified with that business six- 
teen years; entered the advertising business ten years ago; iden- 
tified with The Seth Brown Advertising Agency; Town Topics, 
and several automobile concerns in advertising dept. ; conducted 
department on various publications consisting of drama, music and 
automobile; advertising mgr. The Ranch & Lang Carriage Co. 
Recreations: Athletics. 

FAGAN, Frank H.; dentist; born, Cleveland, Oct. 26, 1874; 
graduate Western Reserve University, Dental Department; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Ella Yanch; member Northern Ohio Dental Ass'n, 
Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M., Banner Lodge, I. O. O. F. 

FAIBBANK, George Lorenzo; merchant; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
7, 1874; son of Ammi Palmer and Adelia Harriet Parker Fair- 
bank; common school and commercial college education; married, 
Cleveland, Sept. 12, 1894; Alcenia Jane Van Tassel; two daugh- 
ters; at the age of 16, began work as ofiice boy and stenographer 
for Weidman-Holmes Co.; at different intervals later was sten- 
ographer for the receivers of The Valley Railway, E. C. Pope, iron 
ore and pig iron business, and The Hill Clutch Co.; went with 
the Struthers Furnace Co. about seventeen years ago, as sten- 
ographer, advanced to bookkeeper; later elected sec'y and about 
seven years ago elected vice pres. of the company, which position 
he now holds; vice pres. The Struthers Furnace Co. and Struthers 
Coal & Coke Co., New Salem Supply Co., plastico non-staining 
cement; vice pres. and treas. Lake Erie Supply Co.; member Run- 



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yon & Fairbank Co.; 32nd° Mason; Elk, member Sons of the 
American Eevolution, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Lake- 
wood Chamber of Commerce; member Union, Tippecanoe, and Ath- 
letic Clubs, Cleveland, and the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, as a side 
line was engaged as dealer in local stocks and bonds prior to the 
establishment of the Cleveland Stock Exchange. 

FAIECHILD, Egbert Nelson; flour mfgr.; born, Peekskill, N. Y., 
Sept. 28, 1868; son of Egbert Henry and Mary Seymour Fair- 
child; public school education; married, Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 4, 
1893, Gertrude A. Kenny; two daughters Catherine and Mary; in 
flour milling business twenty-seven years; becoming pres. of the 
Cleveland Milling Co. in 1910; before that mgr. Pittsburgh Flour 
Co., Minneapolis; member Cleveland Athletic and Euclid Golf 
Clubs. 

FANNING, Michael A.; construction work; born, Cleveland, 
Aug. 26, 1857; son of Michael Fanning, Sr.; common school edu- 
cation at St. Patrick's Parish School, but graduated from The 
University of the Printing Ofiice; in 1885, married Miss Octavia 
Dix, of New Orleans; issue, two daughters and one son; early busi- 
ness life spent in newspaper woi'k in St. Louis, Mo., Columbus, O., 
and political correspondent for a number of western papers; came 
back to Cleveland, and in 1899, made sec'y of the Municipal Ass'n; 
in 1900, state agt. for the Barber Asphalt Co., and later took agen- 
cies of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri; organizer and pres. of 
the Cleveland Short Line E. E. Co.; this enterprise was adopted 
by the New York Central E. E. Co., and has been of the greatest 
value to the shijjping interests of the city; in 1903, organized and 
became pres. of the Forest City Street E. E. Co., which, through 
the efforts of the late Mayor Tom L. Johnson, gave 3-cent fare 
to the city; in the paving business for a number of years; trustee 
Goodrich Social Settlement House; member Benevolent Committee 
of the Chamber of Commerce; director the Associated Charities; 
organizer and first pres. Catholic Federation of Cleveland, and 
one of the organizers and director of The National Catholic Ex- 
tension Society. 

FAENSWOETH, Harry M.; lawyer; born, Nashua, N. H., Sept. 
4, 1861; son of Marshall H. and Mary C. Danforth Fansworth; 
educated in Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, March 
25, 1886, Bettie C. Brainard; two sons, Frank M., Dec. 21, 1886, 
Brainard H., June 6, 1899; admitted to bar, 1882; organized Brook- 
lyn Savings & Trust Co., 1888; actively engaged with that institu- 
tion twenty-two years; in 1910, formed law firm of Farusworth & 
Farnsworth; vice pres. The Brooklyn Savings & Trust Co.; pres. 
the Farnsworth Eealty Co.; member Brooklyn Memorial M. E. 
Church, Chamber of Commerce, Tippecanoe Club; Mason; clerk of 
Brooklyn village. 



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FARRELLY, Et. Rev. John Patrick, D. D.; Bishop of Cleve- 
land; born, Memphis, Tenn., March 15, 1856; son of John P. and 
Martha Clay Moore Farrelly; early education in the grammar 
schools of Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky; studied classics for 
three years at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C; in 1873, 
went to Europe, to complete classical education; graduated from 
the College of Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium; from 
Namur, went to the American College, Kome, to study philosophy 
and theology; at the conclusion of a brilliant course received the 
Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The University of the Pro- 
paganda, Eome; was ordained priest, May 22, 1880, by Cardinal 
Monaca Lavalletta, in the Lateran Basilica, Eome; asst. pastor 
of the Cathedral, Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 5, 1882; pastor of the 
Cathedral and Chancellor of the Diocese of Nashville, 1883-1887; 
Sept. 25, 1887, was made sec'y of the American Bishops at Eome; 
spiritual director of the American College, Eome, 1894-1909; re- 
ceived the title of Monsignor from Leo XIII, and enjoyed the 
same distinction under Pius X; March 16, 1909,' he was notified of 
his appointment to the See of Cleveland; May 1, 1909, he was con- 
secrated Bishop in the Chapel of the American College, Eome, by 
Cardinal Gotti, Perfect of Propaganda; assigned by Bishop Morris 
of Little Eock, and Bishop Kennedy, Eector of the American Col- 
lege; installed as Bishop in the Cleveland Cathedral, June 13, 
1909; director of all the Catholic charitable and educational insti- 
tutions of the city and Diocese of Cleveland; Alumni American 
College, Eome; his grandfather. Col. Terrence Farrelly, was a 
distinguished lawyer and judge of the courts, wrote the first con- 
stitution of the State of Arkansas; his father was a leading law- 
yer of Memphis, Tenn., and represented that city in the State 
Legislature; was a member of the famous "Long Legislature," 
so-called on account of the length of the session, 1859-1861, in 
which the question of separation from the Union was discussed, 
his father being among those opposing the separation; his moth- 
er's family came to this country in the early part of the 18th 
century, settling in North Carolina and Virginia; there are still 
representatives of the Moores in North Carolina and of the Clays 
in Kentucky, 

FERNALD, Robert Heywood; engineer; born, Orono, Me., Dee. 
19, 1871; son of Merritt Caldwell (q. v.) and Mary Lovejoy Hey- 
wood Fernald; brother of Merritt Lyndon F. (q. v.); B. M. E., 
Maine State College, 1892; Massachusetts Institute Technology, 
1892-1893; M. E., Case School Applied Science, 1898; A. M., Co- 
lumbia, 1901, Ph. D. 1902; married, Catherine Mason Coupland, of 
Boone, la., June 27, 1905; instr. 1893-1896; asst. prof. 1896-1900, 
Case School Applied Science; prof. meeh. engineering, Washington 
University, 1902-1907; prof. meeh. engineering, Case School Ap- 
plied Science, since Sept. 1, 1907; engr. in charge technologic 
branch. United States Geological Survey, Sept. 1, 1904-July 
1, 1910; consulting engr., fuel div.. Bureau of Mines, since July 1, 
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United States Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines, member 
American Society Mechanical Engineers, Society Promotion En- 
gineering Education, American Society Testing Materials, Cleve- 
land Engineering Society, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce; club: 
University; Congregationalist; Kepublican. 

FESLEB, Mayo; sec'y Civic League of Cleveland; born, Indiana, 
1871; son of Peter and Emma Collett Fesler; education, public 
and high school, Indiana; University of Chicago, Ph. B., 1896; post- 
grad. University of Chicago; three years fellow in History and 
Political Science; married, Chicago, June, 1901, Gertrude Fails; 
one child; sec'y Civic League of St. Louis, 1902-1910; sec'y Civic 
League of Clevieland since 1910; sec'y City Club of Cleveland, Ohio 
Municipal League and Cleveland Charter Commission; member 
City Club. 

FESSLEB, Carl F.; teacher of piano; born, Karlsruhe, Ger- 
many, 1860; received his education in his native town of Karls- 
ruhe; entered the high school there, called gymnasium. ?ind then 
the music school, displaying unusual talent for music when young, 
his parents gave him careful training under the very best in- 
structors; married, Cleveland, 1892, Henrietta Stoll; issue, one 
daughter and two sons; came to America in 1880, and with the ex- 
ception of one year, has lived in Cleveland ever since; his ability 
as a musician and teacher was soon recognized; for twelve years 
he was associate director of The Wolfram School of Music; after 
its dissolution, he founded The Fessler School of Music, which 
has a teaching force of seven inFtructors; he has done considerable 
composing and one of his best is a series of piano lyrics. 

FETZER, Gottlob; clergyman, oilitor; bor;i at Cleveland, Jul;- 
30, 1861; son of Andrew- and Mary A. Fetzer; educated, German- 
American Academy, Eochester, N. Y.; graduated Kochester Theo- 
logical Seminary, 1889; married, Bertha L. Ilaselhvhn, of Cle\e- 
land, Nov. 28,' 1889; ordained German Baptist minister, 1889; 
pastor Erin Avenue Church, Cleveland, 1889-1890; Berlin, Out., 
1890-1897; Second Church, New York, 1897-1901; editor of Ger- 
man Baptist periodicals and literature, since 1901. 

FIEBACH, Albert Henry; lawyer; born, Brownhelm, Lorain 
county, O., Aug. 28, 1876; son of Peter and Sarah Leuszler Fie- 
bach; educated, district schools, Oberlin Academy and Oberlm 
College; studied two years in the University of Michigan; re-j 
turned to Oberlin for senior year, graduating in 1899; received de- 
gree of A. B. ; received LL. B. degree from Harvard in 1902; mar- 
ried, Shenandoah, la., Nov. 30, 1905, Miss Louise June Bogart; 
admitted to tiie bar in December of 1902; since that time engaged 
in general law practice in Cleveland; member Chamber of Com- 
merce; member of the benevolence committee of the Chamber; 
member executive committee of Legal Ala Society, and of the 
legal committee of the Associated Charities. 



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FILD, Edward; milk dealer; born, Cleveland, July 18, 1887; eon 
of Herman and Catherine Schnabel Fild; graduated from Orchard 
School and went to West High school two years; graduated from 
the Grammar School in 1901; married, Cleveland, June 25, 1905, 
Lauretta Corcoran; two children; succeeded his father, Herman 
Fild, who established the business in 1888; member Milk Dealers' 
Fraternal League. Eecreations: Bowling and Baseball. 

FINCH, Edward Brush; dealer in motor cars; born. Holly, Mich., 
Oct. 17, 1873; son of Nathaniel A. and Mary Hadley Finch; edu- 
cated University of Michigan; married, Detroit, Mich., January, 
1900, May Pruegs; issue, Edward B., Jr., William Roberts; mem- 
ber Michigan Naval Reserves and Michigan State Militia; 1900- 
1906, sec'y and treas. Pungs-Finch Auto & Gas Engine Co.; 1906- 
1908, asst. to factory mngr. and head of Technical Dept., Packard 
Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich.; 1908-1910, head of Inspection and 
Service Divisions with The Chalmers Motor Car Co., Detroit, 
Mich.; July, 1910, established business dealing in Chalmer Motor 
Cars in Cleveland; pres. American Novelty Co.; member Sigma 
Alpha Epsilon Fraternity; member Athletic, and Automobile Clubs, 
Cleveland, and Detroit Boat Club, Detroit, Mich. 

FINLAY, Lance G.; sales engineer; born at sea, Nov. 16, 1875; 
son of George Finlay, fleet paymaster, R. N., and Emma M. Wil- 
liams Finlay; educated, public schools, School of Science, Univer- 
sity of Glasgow; married in New York; was engaged for a number 
of years in the sugar industry, building several plants in Trinidad, 
Cuba, and other sugar-producing countries; then asst. sales mngr. 
for De Ha Vergne Machine Co. of New York City; also in con- 
sulting practice; came to Cleveland in 1907, and engaged in busi- 
ness for himself, in high-grade machinery and equipment; district 
mngr. The Terry Steam Turbine Co., Providence Engineering 
Works, Schutte & Koerting Co., Raymond Concrete Pile Co.; mem- 
ber Athletic Club. 

FINLEY, William F.; banker; born, Millersburg, O., Oct. 16, 
1879; son of Calim and Laura Gray Finley; education, Millers- 
burg High School and Mt. Union College; married, Fredericks- 
burg, O., Nov. 25, 1907, Grace Morgan; two children; asst. treas. 
Garfield Savings Bank; member Chamber of Commerce; Wood- 
ward Lodge, F. & A. M., Alpha Tau Omega. 

FLOOD, William; painting contractor; born, Cleveland, March 
27, 1854; son of James and Annie Aylard Flood; public school 
education; married, Clevelana, March 25, 1885, Nellie Denison; 
two children; employed by Aylard & Burnett, June, 1868; re- 
mained with same firm thirteen years; then purchased business; 
has been in the same business at the same location forty-five years; 
pres. and treas. the William Flood Co.; member Cleveland Build- 
ers' Exchange, Chamber of Commerce, Automobile Club. 



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FOOTE, George Harry; milk dealer; born, Hamden, Geauga 
county, O., Nov. ±6, 1887; son of E. C. and Delia Thompson Foote; 
educated, public and high school; married, Cleveland, Nov. 22, 
1911, Lilliam May Willis; born on the home farm and worked the 
place until 1905; sales solicitor lor the Bell Telephone Co. for two 
years, then bought a milk route in the East End, and is now en- 
gaged in running that; his father, Edward C. Foote, was a native 
of Aurora, Portage County, O., born in 1858, and came to Hamden 
in 1893; member school board and trustee of Warrensville town- 
ship; pres. of Chagrin Falls Fair for eight years. 

FORD, Don Berry; dentist; born, Leetonia, 0., Nov. 2, 1879; son 
of Homer J. and Emma Berry Ford; graduate of Western Eeserve 
University; doctor of dental surgery; began practice in 1905; mem- 
ber Ohio Dental Ass'n, W. E. U.; Dental Aiumni Ass'n, Cleveland 
Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E, 

FORD, Edward S.; electric business; born. New York State, Oct. 
8, 1863; son of George A. and Martha Lauretta Tracy Ford; edu- 
cated, public and high schools of Cleveland; business course Spen- 
cerian Business College; married, Cleveland, 1893, Caroline Pren- 
tiss Smith; one daughter, Florence Prentiss Ford; came to Cleve- 
land in 1872; at the age of 16, went to work for W. P. Southworth, 
as clerk; promoted to chief entry clerk, and was there five years; at 
21, became associated with Everett-Weddell Banking Co., as dis- 
count teller, where he remained six years, then with law and col- 
lection department of E. G. Dunn & Co., as asst. mgr.; remained 
three years; with The Ford & Washburn Storelectric Co., as sec'y, 
for seven years; resident mgr. of The Triumph Electric Co., of Cin- 
cinnati, manufacturers of electrical machinery; in addition to this 
position, is acting as electrical engineer for many of the large 
manufacturers in Cleveland; member of Commercial Travelers' 
life & Accident Ass'n, and Independent Order of Foresters, and 
Calvary Presbyterian Church. 

FORD, George Whitmarsh.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
8, 1865; son of Lewis W. and Anna Fern Ford; educated, Cleve- 
land public schools and Western Eeserve University; married, 
Cleveland, Oct. 2, 1895; Frances E. Bailey; issue, Daniel Bailey 
Ford; advertising mngr. The Sherwin-Williams Co., 1887-1903; 
partner The Cleveland Planer Works, 1903-1913; B. L. degree. 
Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity; member Union, Country, Eowfant, 
and Eotary Clubs; member Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 
Eecreations: Golf and Gardening. 

FORD, Horatio; banker; born, Cleveland, June 23, 1881; son of 
H. Clark and Ida M. Thorp Ford; educated, Cleveland public 
schools. Central High, Yale University, A. B., Western Eeserve 
University, LL. B.; married Cleveland, May 7, 1908, Ella A. White; 
issue, three sons, H. Clark TI, Andrew, Thomas Windsor; admitted 
to bar, 1906; cashier Garfield Savings bank, 1907-1909; sec'y same 



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institution, 1909-1913; director and sec'y Ford-McCaslin Co.; 
director and vice pres. Star Electric Co.; director and vice pres. 
New Amsterdam Co.; director and see'y Bankers' Eealty Co.; 
sergeant, Troop A, O. N. G.; vice pres. American Institute of 
Banking, vice pres. Cleveland Council, Boy k couts of America; 
member Zeta Psi, Phi Delta Phi, Chi Delta Thata, Yale Alumni 
Ass'n, Union, Chagrin Vahey Hunt and Singers' Clubs. 

FOSD, Horatio Clark; lawyer, banker; born, Cleveland, O., Aug. 
25, 1853; son of Horatio Cyrus and Martha Cozad Ford; Oberlin 
College, 1870-1872; B. S., University of Michigan, 1875; married, 
Ida M. Throp, of Cleveland, Oct. 17, 1877; in law practice, Cleve- 
land, since 1878; senior member Ford, Snyder & Tildeu; also pres. 
Garfield Savings Bank since 1892; pres. Williamson Co.; director 
Cleveland Trust Co. Wheeling Traction Co., Cleveland & Eastern 
Traction Co.; member City Council, 1879-1885 (part of the time 
vice pres.), trustee Oberlin College; vice pres. Congregational 
Building Society; director Congregational Board Ministerial Re- 
lief; member Zeta Psi, Union Club. 

FORMAN, Jonathan Clayton; printer; born, Gorham county, 
New York, Sept. 11, 1830; son of Samuel W. Forman; educated 
in the public schools of Warren, O.; married, Cleveland, June, 
1853, Miss Elizabeth Darroch; issue, two sons, both deceased; Mrs. 
Forman died in 1896; at the age of 13 years entered the employ 
of the Western Eeserve Chronicle, as roller boy; apprenticed to 
Tait & Walling, publishers, of the Liberty Herald; after a year, 
the plant was destroyed by fire, and the company moved to 
Cleveland, consolidating The Herald with The True American; 
secured a position with Sanford & Haj'ward, the largest printers 
and bookbinders in the city; after four years apprenticeship, was 
made mngr. of the bookbinding dept.; admitted to the firm in 
1867; and in 1876, business was purchased by Short & Forman; 
destroyed by fire in 1890, and the firm was then re-organized as 
the Forman-Bassett-Hatch Co., printers, binders and lithographers; 
has invented devices and machines used in printing; member Union 
and Tippecanoe Clubs. 

FOSTER, Edwin James; attorney-at-law; born, Strongsville, O., 
1847; son of Nathan and Betsy Hulet Foster; educated, Ohio Wes- 
leyan University one year; graduated at Baldwin University in 
1873, A. B. & A. M.; graduated from the Boston University Law 
School in its second class; married, Cleveland, 1880, Julia E. 
Stroud; two children, Athene S. and Merlyn S. Foster; was assignee 
of The Cleveland Paper Co., carried on the business and effected 
a settlement of over $300,000; settled the claim of Engineer Fol- 
som, who went down on his engine at the time of the Ashtabula 
disaster; this settlement was attempted at the request of an old 
gentleman who had been a partner to him; Mr. Folsom was told 
that no legal charge would be made, but if a settlement was made 
he might fix a reasonable fee; I secured a settlement of $12,000, 



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and a liie position at better thau $1()U per month; Mr. Folsom 
has never fixed any fee or written me us much as a lino ol' 
thanks; I have been a student all my life; have eontril)uted 
articles to the press and have several volumes of writings, nearly 
ready for the publisher; was an early member and officer of the 
Y. M. C. A.; started the mission from which developed the Park 
St. Congregational Church. 

FOWLEE, Harold North; university prof.; born, Westfield, 
]V[ass., Feb. 25, 1859; son of Samuel and Maria Jones Fowler; A. B., 
Harvard, 1880; studied American School Classical Studies, Athens, 
1882-1883,Universitie3 Bonn and Berlin, 1883-1885; Ph. D., Bonn, 
1885; married, Helen, daughter of ex-Gov. Charles H. Bell, of 
Exeter, N. H., Dec. 23, 1890; instr. Harvard, 1885-1888; prof. 
Phillips Exeter Academy, 1888-1892; prof. Greek, University of 
Texas, 1892-1893; College for Women, Western Reserve University, 
since 1893; prof. Greek language and literature, American School 
Classical Studies, Athens, 1903-1904; editor-in-chief American 
Journal of Archaeology since 1906; corr. mem. Kaiserlieh Duet- 
sches Arehaol. Institut. Editor: Thucydides, Book V., 1888; 
Plautus, Menaechmi, 1889; Quintus Curtius, Books III and IV, 
1890; Allen and Greenough 's Ovid, 1891. Joint Author: Tuell 
and Fowler's First Book in Latin, 1893; Tuell and Fowler's Be- 
ginner's Book in Latin, 1900; Fowler and Wheeler's Handbook 
of Greek Archaeology, 1909. Author: History of Ancient Greek 
Literature, 1902; History of Eomau Literature, 1903. Contbr. 
classical subjects to revs, and mags. 

t'OX, Ernest C; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, April 4, 1870; 
son of Frank B. and Julia Brown Fox; educated, Cleveland paro- 
chial schools; married, Cleveland, Feb. 11, 1897, Ella Mabley; two 
daughters, Margaret 15, and Katheriue, 14; business career, mail- 
ing clerk. Fuller & Warren Co.; asst. mngr. The Richmond Stove 
Co., sec'y and treas. F. B. Fox, Register Mnfg. Co.; organized 
and was sec'y and treas. The Fox Furnace Co.; organized and was 
sec'y and treas. The Union Selling Co.; owner The Independent 
Register & Mnfg. Co.; sec'y The Scheible Monceief Heater Co.; 
member Congregational Church, Athletic and Rotary Cluba. 
Recreations: Baseball and Motoring. 

FRACKLETON, Robert James; manufacturer; born, Chandlor- 
ville. 111., 1868; educated, Illinois College, Jacksonville, B. S.; 
married. New York City, 1907, Constance Louise Chandler; en- 
gaged in banking for six years and manufacturing for eighteen 
years; pres. The Chandler & Price C; director Frackleton State 
Bank; director The Reliance Gauge Column Co.; director The 
Cleveland Folding Machine Co.; member the Union, University, 
and East End Tennis Clubs. 



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FRANCE, E. MUler; insurance; boru, Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 
.30, 1866; son of A. J. and Annie Ainsworth Franco; educated, 
Philadelphia public schools, and Pierce School; after entering' 
business, took full course in telegrapliy and shorthand at night 
school; married, Roslyn, Long Island, July 7, 1891, Alice H. Leys; 
one son, Lej^s, and one daughter, Helen; from 18 to 42, was tele- 
graph operator New York Division of The Pennsylvania R. R.; 
three years stenographer and private sec 'y, four years as sec 'y 
and treas. the Standard Wheel Co. (the Vehicle Wheel Trust), of 
Indiana; 1897, entered the life insurance business, spending two 
3^ears in Indiana, then moved to Cleveland, and have continued 
the same business; general agt. The State Mutual Life Assurance 
Co. of Massachusetts; member committee of management. Central 
Y. M. C. A.; Mason, Woodward Cleveland Chapter, Cleveland 
Council; member Willowick, Euclid, Athletic, and Colonial Clubs. 

FRANKEL, Philip; sec'y Manufacturers Ass'n and Employers 
Ass 'n of Cleveland; born, Cleveland, Feb. 27, 1882; educated, 
Cleveland public schools and business college; began career with 
mnfg. concern; with them till 1901, then became connected with 
the Manufacturers Ass'n; elected sec'y in 1905; formed large 
Employers Ass'n; sec'y of that; much interested in labor ques- 
tions. 

FRASER, Arthur D.; real estate; born, Cleveland, Aug. 15, 
1879; son of Duncan and Elizabeth M. Fraser; educated Cleve- 
land Central High School; married, Cleveland, Jan. 22, 1903, 
Bertha M. Haas; with Standard Oil Co., 1899-1902; Prudential 
Trust Co., 1902-1904; teller Guardian Savings & Trust Co., 1904- 
1906; treas. Guarantee Title & Trust Co., 1906-1912; since March, 
1912, associated with Chas. F. Laughlin in the real estate and 
mortgage loan business; sec'y and treas. Security Mortgage & 
Investment Co.; member Masonic Lodge, Lakewood, O.; Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce, and Chamber of Industry. Recreations: 
Tennis and Motoring; has always lived in Cleveland. 

FRAZEE, Henry; laundryman; born, Cleveland, March 23, 1854; 
son of John N. and Louise Littlejohn Frazee; educated, public 
schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Jan. 20, 1880, Geneieve 
Estelle Beaumont; two children; in war with Spain, capt. Co. C, 
10th O. V. I.; mngr. and treas. Frazee Laundry Co.; member Mili- 
tary Order Foreign Wars, and Naval and Military Order Spanish 
American War. 

FRAZIER, James Welch; consulting engineer; born, Pitts- 
burg, Pa., July 4, 1870; son of George G. and Sadie B. Smith 
Frazier; educated, Grammar and High School, Allegheny, Pa.; 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; graduated, 1894, degree of Civil 
Engineer; married, Troy, N. Y., 1895, Jennie H. Van Deusen; two 
daughters, Ruth and Helen; chief engineer Federal St. & Pleasant 
Valley R. R., Pittsburg, 1894-1896; asst. engineer Pennsylvania 



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Co., in office of chief engineer, 1896-1899; engineer Brown Hoist- 
ing Mchy. Co., 1899-1905; member of firm Frazier & Fox, 1905- 
1910; pres. The J. W. Frazier Co., 1910, to date; member of board 
of consulting engineers in connection with construction of Detroit- 
Superior High Level Bridge; director The Civic League of Cleve- 
land; past pres. The Cleveland Engineering Society; member 
Kensselaer Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil 
Engineers, and Cleveland Engineering Society; member Athletic, 
Colonial, City, and Automobile Clubs, Chamber of Commerce. 

FREEMAN, Ladbrook H.; manufacturer; born, England, June 
23, 1870; son of Walter Thomas and Esther L. Healy Freeman; 
public and high school education; married, Cleve'^nd, May 16, 1894, 
Emilie Loeber; issue, Harley L. Freeman, born, Dec. 30, 1895, 
and Euth E. Freeman, born Sept. 1, 1899; sec'y and treas. The 
Industrial Machy Co.; pres. The Hall Mnfg. Co.; vice pres. The 
Guggenheim Ldy. Machy Co.; director the Cahen Mfg. Co.; mem- 
ber Masonic bodies. 

FRENCH, Elmer A.; general contractor; born, Cleveland, Mar. 
20, 1880; son of Albert and Harriet E. Maguire French; went 
through Lakewood High School, class of 1899; is a grandson of 
R. G. French, who settled in Lakewood (which was East Eock 
Port at that time), about 1830; he was a carpenter and contrac- 
tor, one of the best of his time; many of the buildings that he 
constructed are still standing; has given up house contracting and 
has taken up asphalt shingle roofing as a specialty. Eecreations: 
Sports of all kinds. 

FRESHWATER, Milton; paving contractor;" born, West Vir- 
ginia, Sept. 11, 1877; son of E. A. and Clarenda Campbell Fresh- 
water; educated in commercial course at Morgantown, W. Va.; 
married, Johnstown, Pa., Dec. 31, 1907, Miss C. B. Williams; two 
children; has worked at the street-paving business since 1893; 
completing street paving in the following places; Johnstown and 
Freeport, Pa., Chester, W. Va., Alliance, Eichwood, Ada and 
Cleveland, Ohio; since April, 1909; the paving contracts are man- 
aged by three members of the firm, while Mr. E. A. Freshwater 
takes no part in this branch of the business; the firm consists of 
E. A. Freshwater, Philip, Elmer and Milton Freshwater, sons of 
E. A.; the firm has offices in Morgantown, W. Va., and Cleveland. 

FRETTER, Frank B.; vice pres. and treas. National Refining 
Co.; born, Cleveland, Oct. 2, 1864; son of Nathan and Barbara 
Kirch Fretter; educated in Cleveland public schools; married, 
Cleveland, Margaret Huburt; one child; first employed by Marsh 
& Howard Chemical Co., Root & McBride Co., and L. S. & M. E. 
E.; entered oil business about 1885; with the National Refining 
Co. twenty-five years, past two years as vice pres., previously 
sec'y; member National Petroleum Ass'n, Union and Country 
Clubs; vice pres. Western Petroleum Eefiners' Ass'n. 



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FRIEDEICH, Martin; M. D.; born, Paussau, Prussia, May 11, 
1885; son of Joseph and There?e Bauer Friedrieh; early educa- 
tion in the schools of Passau and the gymnasium there; 4 years in 
the University of Munich; then went to Paris to study French 
Literature at the Sorbonne and the Bibliotheque; there three 
years; in 1802 entered the Medical Dept. of Western Eeserve 
University, Cleveland; graduated with degree of M. D., 1894; 
spent two years in study abroad in Vienna, Paris and Berlin; in 
early years engaged in the lumber business in Crawford, Pa.; 
came to Cleveland in 1892; in ]897, associated with the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons as a lecturer on internal medicine and 
diagnosis; since 1901, health ofScer of Cleveland; consulting phy- 
sician City Hospital, and Warrensville Sanitarium; member the 
following, Cleveland Academy of Medicine, State and American 
Medical Ass'n, Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- 
culosis; American Public Health Ass'n, and The American and 
Ohio Health Committees; charter member German Literary So- 
ciety, the Alliance Franchise, French; Literary Society; devotes 
much time to the study of public health and elimination and pre- 
vention of contagious diseases; under his direction, a bacteri- 
ological laboratory was opened; meat and milk inspection and 
daily school inspection started; member Chamber of Commerce; 
in Masonry, has attained Knight Templar degree; belongs to 
Forest City Commandery; member Schlaraffia German Literary 
Society. 

FRIEND, Frank Carl; lawyer; born in Austria, Nov. 17, 1862; 
son of Anton and Petronila Friend; educated, public schools and 
Central High School; studied law in the oflBce of the late E. K. 
Wilcox; admitted to the bar in 1884; married, Cleveland, Nov. 
26, 1890, Miss Lilly D. Davies; practiced law in Mr. Wilcox's 
ofiice until 1893, when the partnership of Wilcox & Friend was 
formed; this partnership was dissolved in 1904; member Cleve- 
land Bar Ass'n; Republican; Chapter Mason; elected to the City 
Council in 1885; served two terms; member Board of Education, 
1889-1890; member Board of Health, 1906-1907; owner of a fine 
library; favorite fiction authors, Dickens and Thackeray. 

FRITZSCHE, Alfred; west. mngr. General Fire Extinguisher 
Co.; born, Cleveland, May 21, 1869; son of Alfred and Caroline 
Snyder Fritzsche; public school education, Cleveland; married, 
Cleveland, June 6, 1894, Clara Neracher; issue, four children; 
director The Borden Co.; director and west. mngr. General Fire 
Extinguisher Co.; director The Wilson Dress Hook Co., and The 
General Time Recorder Co.; vice pres. Monroe Body Co.; mngr. 
and treas. U. S. Construction Co.; member Ohio Society of New 
York, Euclid and Cleveland Athletic Clubs. 



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FRITZSCHE, Henry Ernest; contracting engineer; born, Cleve- 
land, July 2, 1874; son of Alfred and Caroline Snyder Fritzsche; 
educated, Cleveland public schools; contracting engineer. The 
General Fire Extinguisher Co.; member Sons of Veteran; Royal 
Arch Mason, and Cleveland Grays; member Yacht, Athletic, 
Willowick Country, Automobile, Automobile Country, and Shaker 
Lakes Country Clubs. Recreations: Landscape Painting, Ama- 
teur Photography and Golf. 

FULLER, Clifford W.; lawyer; born, Garrettsville, O., Feb. 6, 
1864; son of Sherman W. and Flora R. Case Fuller; educated, Gar- 
rettsville public schools,^ Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., A. B., 
M. A. and Ph. D. pro merite; capt. 10th O. V. I., war with Spain; 
admitted to the Ohio bar, 1890; practiced law in Cleveland since 
1891; sec 'y The Cleveland & Youngstown R. R. Co.; sec'y and 
treas. Willowick Country Club; director The West Ninth Co., The 
Shaker Vineyards Land Co., and The Sedgwick Land Co.; sec'y 
Terminal Bldg. Co.; trustee The H. B. Hurlburt Trust for Art; 
member Phi Gamma Delta, and Union, Mayfield, Country, Ath- 
letic, University, Rowfant, and The Willowick Country Clubs. 
Recreations: Big Game Hunting and Fishing. 

FULLER, Horace Arthur; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Sept. 
23, 1864; son of Samuel Augustus and Julia Clark Fuller; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools, and one year Western Reserve 
University; married, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14, 1886, Alice Tenney 
Ingersoll; issue, Antionette F., Pierrong and Marian Fuller; be- 
gan business in January, 1883, with Condit, Fuller & Co.; this 
was a partnership; about two years later, entered the employ of 
The Union Rolling Mill Co.; in 1888, as asst. sec'y, in 1891, 
elected treas. and gen. mngr., and pres. in 1911; vice pres. of The 
Bourne-Fuller Co. in 1891; pres. since January, 1912; pres. of The 
Upson Nut Co.; pres. and treas. The LTnion Rolling Mills Co.; vice 
pres. and treas. The Bourne Fuller Co.; director Central National 
Bank, and American Box Co.; member school board in the village 
of Brattenahl; member Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and 
Union, Country, Mayfield, and Tavern Clubs. Recreations: Golf 
and Fishing. 

FULLER, Hubert Bruce; lawyer, author; born, Derby, Conn., 
June 15, 1880; son of Robert Bruce and Harriet A. Prentice Ful- 
ler; A. B., Yale, 1901; A. M., 1904, LL. M., 1903, Columbian (now 
George Washington) University; awarded Cobden Club medal 
(England), 1901; married, Florence B. Dennis, of Chanute, Kan., 
May 25, 1910; practiced law at Cleveland since 1903; sec'y to 
Senator Theodore Burton (q. v.), since 1909; Republican; member 
S. A. R.; Phi Sigma Kappa, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 
Council of Sociology, Western Reserve Historical Society. Author: 
The Purchase of Florida, 1906; Tax Returns in Ohio, 1907; The 
Speakers of the House, 1909. Contributor to magazines on legal, 
historical and sociological subjects. 



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FULIjEB, Jay D.; manufacturer; born, Aldeu, N. Y., Jan. 22, 
1872; son of Spencer J. and Mary A. Smith Fuller; educated, 
Alden High School; married, Cleveland, June 4, 1896, Florence 
Helen Quayle; one daughter, Helen; with the Haserot Canneries 
Co. fifteen years; established The Fuller Canneries Co. in March, 
1904; pres. of the company; In November, 1912, became identi- 
fied with The Weideman Co., Canned Foods and Mnfg. Dept.; 
Mason; member Union and Athletic Clubs. 

FULLER, Joel Haven; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Sept. 6, 
1851; son of William and Catherine M. Haven Fuller; educated, 
common, graded and preparatory schools, Cleveland and Oberlin, 
O.; married, Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1888, Lillian Beatty Turner; 
issue, one daughter, living and one son, deceased; Eepublican in 
National politics. Independent in State, County and Municipal; 
left school at 17, to take clerkship with C, C, C. & St. L. R. R. 
Co.; serA'ed several years then in County Auditor's office, and 
later served thirteen years in office of the Standard Oil Co.; left 
their employment in 1890, to engage in fire brick pavement busi- 
ness, under name of Stowe-Fuller Co.; vice pres. of the Company; 
pres. Federal Refractories Co., and Terminal Land Co.; vice pres. 
National Fire Brick Co., Minor Fire Brick Co.; pres. Lock Haven 
Fire Brick Co.; sec 'y and treas. Square Realty Co.; Masonic 32nd°; 
member Union, Mayfield Country, Cleveland Gun, and Automobile 
Clubs; member Cleveland and Pittsburgh Chambers of Commerce. 
Recreations: Golf and Hunting. 

GAEDEi, John W.; manufacturer; born, Hlinois, May 16, 1873; 
educated, common schools, Evergreen City Business College, 
Bloomington, 111.; married, Cleveland, 1896, Sophia Bohn; issue, 
three daughters and one son, Esther, Ottillia, Lydia and David; 
for the past five years has been manufacturing hardware special- 
ties, consisting of the following, saw vices, chain drills, hollow 
augers, saw sets, emery wheel dressers, bench vises, plane gauges, 
spoke pointers and spok'^ shaves; has recently started to make an 
improved iron plane, which is entirely new and the best plane ever 
produced; gen. mngr. Buckeye Saw Vice Co.; member Masonic 
Order, Woodmen of the World, and Independent Order of For- 
esters. 

GAMMETER, Harry C; inventor; born, Akron, O., Feb. 27, 
1870; son of '■ 'hristian and Anna Mauerhover Gammeter; public 
school education in Akron and Buchtel College and. Case School 
of Applied Science; married, Oct. 25, 1905, Miss Maud F. Frye; 
issue, two children. Electa L. and Harry F.; traveled for seven 
years studying modern methods of manufacturing; worked for 
the United Typewriting & Supplies Co.; recognized the need of a 
duplicating machine for business purposes; became associated with 
H. C. Osborne, and the Multigraph machine was developed; in 
1902, a company was formed; now has 65 offices and employs 600 
men; mechanical expert American Multi graphing Co.; stockholder 



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and director the Lake Erie Forging Co.; Republican; Episcopalian; 
member Chamber of Comrr.erce, Business Men's Club, Y. M. C. A., 
Aero Club of America, and pres. The Aero Club of Cleveland; 
member Engineers and Manufacturers' Club. Recreations: Out- 
door Sports, such as Motoring, Yachting, Fishing and Tennis. 

GARDNER, Burt M.; salesman; born, Cleveland, Jan. 16, 1867; 
son of George W. and Rosaline L. Oviatt Gardner; public school 
education; married, St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 12, 1895, Marian P. 
Hall; one sou; 1892-1901, associate editor "The Iron Trade Review, 
located at Chicago, Illi.; 1895-1898, sec'y The Western Foundry- 
mens' Ass'n; 1901-1906, iron and steel broker in Chicago, 111.; 
1909, sales agt. Ansonia Brass & Copper Co., New York; 1912, dis- 
trict sales agt. for Ohio for Worth Bros. Co., of Coatville, Pa.; 
and Michigan Copper & Brass Co. of Detroit, Mich.; pres. The 
Standard Iron & Steel Co.; treas. Ventwell Stove Front Co.; 
director American Portable Seating Co.; member Hermit and Ath- 
letic Clubs, Cleveland, and Fulton Club of New York, 

GARDNER, George Henry; president Gardner Printing Co.; 
born, Cleveland, June 9, 1863; son of George W. and Rosaline L. 
Oviatt Gardner; public schools and Case School of Applied Science 
(1886); married, Cleveland, Sept. 26, 1889, Alice L. Huntington; 
issue, one son; Kenneth H.; father, George W. Gardner, was mayor 
of Cleveland two terms; in 1860, he formed partnership with M. 
B. Clark and John D. Roekfeller, in the grain business, continu- 
ing four years, when Mr. Rockefeller went into 'he oil business; 
1886-1888, sec'y and treas. Walker Mnfg. Co., manufacturing con- 
veying machinery; 1889-1890, member firm Clark & Gardner, flour- 
millers and grain dealers; 1890-1900, sec'y Cleveland Printing & 
Publishiug Co.; 1900-1904, pres. of the Iron & Steel Press Co.; 
publishers The Iron Trade Review, The Foundry, and other trade 
papers; 1904-1913, pres. The Gardner 1 rinting Co., owning one of 
the largest printing plants in Ohio; vice pres. The Robert S. Den- 
ham Co.; member Ben Franklin Club of America; trustee Asso- 
ciation for the Blind; member Zeta Psi college Fraternity; mem- 
ber of Brooks Corps, the Cleveland Gattling Gun Battery, Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Union, Fellow Craft, Rowfant, Yacht, Long- 
worth Canoe, Mavfield Country, and Cleveland Automobile Clubs. 
Recreations: Yachting, Canoeing and Books. 

GARFIELD, James Rudolph; ex-Seeretary of the Interior; born, 
Hiram, O., Oct. 17, 1865; son of James Abram (20th President 
of the U. S.) and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (q. v.); brother of 
Harry Augustus G. (q. v.); A. B., Williams College, 1885; studied 
Columbia Law School.; (LL. D., University of Pittsburg, 1909); 
married, Helen Newell, of Chicago, Dec. 30, 1890; admitted to bar, 
1888; member Ohio Senate, 1896-1899; member U. S. Civil Service 
Commission, 1902-1903; commissioner of corporations, U. S. Dept. 



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of Commerce and Labor, 1903-1907; Sec'y of the Interior in cabinet 
of President Eooeevelt, March 4, 1907-March 4, 1909; in law prac- 
tice at Cleveland since 1909; Eepublican. 

GARLOCK, William Henry; iaundryman; born, North Greece, 
N. Y., Aug. 13, 1842; son of Elisha and Lucy Wilkinson Garlock; 
educated, common schools and Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. Y.; 
married, Fulton, N. Y., Florence Adell Ingell; Eepublican; spent 
seven winters teaching district school; engaged in men's furnish- 
ing business 1873; started in the laundry business, 1880; pres. The 
Garlock-Frazee Laundry Co.; trustee Dorcas Invalid's Home; 
Mason and Knight Templar. Eecreation: Travel. 

GARRETTSON, George Armstrong; banker; born, Columbiana 
county, O., Jan. 30, 1844; son of George and Ann Griffith Garrett- 
son; -educated, public schools and private schools, Cornwell-on- 
the-Hudson, N. Y.; in 1870, married to Ann Scowden; in 1888, 
second marriage to Emma R. Ely; issue, three children, Margaret, 
George and Hiram; enlisted in Co. E, 84th O. V. I., 1862; gradu- 
ated West Point Military Academy, 1867; appointed 2nd Lieut. 
4th U. S. Artillery and served to Jan. 1, 1870; appointed on staff 
of Maj. Gen. John Poe; resigned in 1870, and returning to Cleve- 
land, engaged with Second National Bank; elected cashier in 1880; 
cashier National Bank of Commerce, 1883; vice pres. 1885; now 
pres. Bank of v^ommerce, N. A.; interested in various corporations; 
member Ohio Comm.andery, Loyal Legion of the U. S.; brig. gen. 
of Volunteers, Spanish-American War, 1898, commanding Second 
Brigade, First Division, Second Army Corps, under fire in Porto 
Eico and recommended for brevet as major general; member Union, 
Country, Eoadside and Euclid Clubs of Cleveland; and University 
Clubs of Cleveland and New York; member Naval and Military 
Order, Spanish-American War, Military Order of Foreign Wars 
and United Spanish War Veterans. 

GARRY, Thomas H.; lawyer; born, Stratford, Ont., 1868; 
graduated, University of Wisconsin, class of 1893; married, Cleve- 
Uxnd, Jessie Graham; one daughter, Margaret; Asst. United States 
Atty. Northern District of Ohio, 1904-1910; member law firm 
Goulder, Day, White & Garry; trustee St. Luke's Hospital Ass'n; 
member Athletic Club. 

GASTON, William; clergyman; born, Columbiana county, 0., 
April 19, 1835; son of James W. and Eebecca Conke Gaston; 
A. B., Washington College, Pa., 1858; grad. Western Theological 
Seminary, 1861; (D. D., 1887, LL. D., 1892, Eichmond College 
Ohio); married, Julia M. Cunningham, of Smith's Ferry, Pa., May. 
4, 1855 (died March, 1896); second wife, Jennie L. Wise, of Wash- 
ington, Pa., Aug. 2, 1898; ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1861; 
pastor. Smith's Ferry, Pa., 1861-1865; First Church, Bellaire, O., 
1865-1880; North Church, Cleveland, 1880-1907; Emeretus, 1907; 



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chaplain U. S. Christian Commn. in Civil War, director University 
of Wooster, O.; Kepiibliean; Presbyterian; has traveled in Europe 
and the Orient. 

GATCH, E. K.; cashier Graselli Chemical Co.; born, Milford, 
O., in 1865; common school and graduated from the High School of 
Milford, came to Cleveland in 1884; went to work for E. G. 
Graselli & Son, as office boy; promoted to shipping clerk, book- 
keeper and finally cashier; heavy stockholder in the company; 
member Y. M. C. A., Business Men's Club, and Athletic Club. 
Kecreations: Baseball. 

GEDDES, Ohalmer G.; sheet metal contractor; born, Liberty, 
Trumbull county, O., Dec. 25, 1871; son of James and Minerva 
McGeehon Gedd'es; district school education, Troy, Geauga county, 
O.; married, Cleveland, March 8, 1899, Lilon A. Bliss; two daugh- 
ters, Helen and Hazel; learned the machinist trade at the Warner 
& Swasey Co., and for seven years followed the sheet metal branch 
of the trade; in 1900, formed a partnership with C. E. Bliss, con- 
ducting a general hardware store at Burton, O.; in the fall of 
1903, moved their business to Glenville, O., and engaged in the 
furnace and sheet metal business; in 1911, sold out the hardware 
business, and Mr. Bliss retired; Mr. Geddes is now running the 
sheet metal business, has also done some real estate business; 
built the first four-family apartment house in Glenville; on the 
official board of the Glenville Christian Church for ten years, and 
a trustee for five years; his mother died when he was 4 years 
old and he was raised on a farm in Geauga county and came to 
Cleveland when he was 17. 

GEE, James McCreary; real estate broker; born, Kingsville, O., 
Dec. 24, 1875; son of Francis W. and Mary McCreary Gee; edu- 
cated, common and high schools, Allegheny College, Meadville, 
Pa.; Western Reserve University, Law Dept.; married, Marysville, 
N. Y., June 6. 1900, Helen Mills; issue, Francis, born March 30, 
1901, Daniel, born Dec. 7, 1904, Nicholas, born Feb. 24, 1908, and 
Caroline, born May 9, 1911; member Corps of Cadets, Allegheny 
College; Republican; traveling salesman before settling in Cleve 
land; in 1902, engaged in the life insurance business as asst. supt 
.of The Prudential Life Ins. Co.; in 1904-1905, mgr. sales and tech 
nical dept. of the Hapgood Incorporation; 1905-1908, pres. The 
Cleveland Sales Co., handling stock and bonds of local nature 
pres. The Colonial Automobile Co., The Kelley Island Telephone & 
Electric Co.; sec'y The Wager Motor Co.; now engaged in the real 
estate brokerage business with F. B. Guinan, giving special atten- 
tion to investments properties and long-time leasee; member 
Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 133, Phi Delta Theta from Pa., 
Delta; member Alumni CIul) of Phi Delta Theta. 



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GEEB, Thomas Henry; general insurance; born, Ledyard, Conn., 
Sept. 3, 1840; son of Nathaniela Bellows and Julia Davis Gear; 
educated, common schools, Ledyard, Conn.; 1854, Irving Institute, 
Tarrytown, N. Y.; 1857, State Normal School, Westfield, Mass.; 
graduate, 1861-1862, Norwich Academy, Norwich, Conn.; mar- 
ried, Poquetanuck, Conn., June 30, 1868, Fanny Halsey Brewster; 
one daughter, Mary Brewster Geer; Kepublican in politics; 1859, 
teacher Grammar School, West Gloucester, Mass.; 1860, principal 
of High School, Eockport, Mass., 1862-1865, teacher Burlington 
College, Burlington, N. J., 1866 to date, general insurance busi- 
ness, Cleveland; pres. The Thomas H. Geer Co.; sec'y The Triton 
Steamship Co.; sec'y and pres. Cleveland Life Underwriter's 
Ass'n; sec'y Life Underwriter's Ass'n of Ohio; treas., vice pres. 
and pres. Cleveland Board of Underwriters; Pres. National Ass'n 
of Local Fire Insurance Agents; director The Cleveland Humane 
Society; vestryman Trinity Cathedral; member Athletic Club. 

GIBBONS, John Waldron; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, June 
9, 1844; son of John and Eleanor Fitzpatrick Gibbons; educated, 
public schools and Cleveland Academy; director of police 1891- 
1892; Eepublican; color-sergeant, 150th Ohio Vol. Infantry, May 
4, 1864, till close of Civil War; colonel 5th Eegiment of Infantry, 
O. N. G., 1886-1891; vice commander Army & Navy Post, G. A. E.; 
vice pres. 150th Ohio Vol. Ass'n; served as Guard of Honor at 
obsequies of Pres. Abraham Lincoln, and commanded Knights 
Templar escort at obsequies of Pres. James A. Garfield; Marshal 
of Cleveland Chamber of Commerce at the funeral of Pres. Wil- 
liam McKiuley; started business as supt. Union Elevator Co., 1865; 
Gardner, Burt & Co., Gardner, Clark & Co., junior partner, until 
1888, when he organized the Springsteen Medicine Co.; mgr. and 
prin. owner; director Underwriter's Land Co., and American 
Dynamite Co.; member National Geographical Society, Military 
Service Institution of the U. S. ; one of the founders of the Cleve- 
land Fresh Air Camp; member Iris Lodge, Cleveland Chapter, 
Cleveland Council, Past Commander, Oriental Commandery, 
Knights Templar; member of Consistory Scottish Eite 32, char- 
ter member Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; mem- 
ber Criterion Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Masonic Club, Cham- 
ber of Commerce (vice pres., 1876). Eecreations: Yachting. 

GIBBS, Harley Brownell ; banker; born in Milan, Erie County, O., 
March 13, 1849; son of Edward Hanford and Maria Louise Brownell 
Gibbs; early education in Milan, O. ; married, Hudson, Oct. 24, 
1878, Miss Emma Johnson; Mrs. Gibbs died in 1894; when 16 
years of age, went to work in a grain and commission house in 
Chicago, 111.; there six years; came to Cleveland in 1871; served 
as bookkeeper for the King Bridge Co. until 1875, then elected 
sec'y, and in 1887, became treas. of the Company; resigned in 
1907, but still a director of the Company; organized the Lake 
Shore Banking Co. in 1890; vice pres. of the bank; director the 
Manly Driving Co., New York; Mason, Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., 



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Oriental Commandery, K. P., Lake Erie Consistory S. P. R. S., 
Al Koran Temple A. A. O. N. M. S.; member Union, Roadside, and 
Euclid Clubs, Tlie New England Society of Cleveland, Union 
League Club of Chicago, and the Ohio Society of New York. 

GILBREATH, Bruce Eaymer; dentist; born, Cleveland, Sept. 19, 
1883; son of Charles L. and Clara B. Raymer Gilbreath; University 
School, 1904, l/estern Reserve Dental College, 1901; member 
Gamma Delta Psi and Psi Omega Fraternities and F. & A. M. 

GIRL, Christian; manufacturer; born, Elkhart, Ind., Dec. 31, 
1874; son of Joseph and Catherine Linderman Girl; high school 
education, Elkhart, Ind.; married, Cleveland, September, 1909, 
Mehitable A. Schottler; organized The Perfection Spring Co. in 
1906; organized The Gofy Engine Co. in 1909; and The Marian- 
ville Base & Filter Co. in 1912; has been pres. and mngr. of the 
above companies since; member Cleveland Engineering Society, 
Society of Auto. Engineers, and on Finance and Endowment and 
two other committees of same society; member Athletic, Adver- 
tising, and Automobile Clubs. 

GLEKLER, Michael M.; manufacturer; born, Wuertenburg, 
Germany, March 9, 1854, son of John and Anna Glekler; edu- 
cated Mt. Union College and Spencerian Business College; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Ulrika Raddatz; two daughters; second marriage. 
Bertha Peppel; one son; cigar mnfgr., for 40 years at 1295 West 
11th St., City; making the popular brands of La Palm^as, Mark 
Inains, and Happy Homes; member Biglow Lodge, No. 243, F. & 
A. M., Thatcher Chapter, No. 101, Holyrood Commandery of 
Knights Templar; also Shriner and Grotto; Elks Lodge No. 18, 
Eagles and Moose. 

GLIDDEN, Francis Harrington; manufacturer; born, New 
Castle, Me., May 24, 1832; son of Joseph and Emily Harrington 
Glidden; educated Lincoln Academy, New Castle, Me.; married, 
New Castle, Me., Nov. 15, 1854, Winifred Kavanaugh Waters; 
issue, Francis K., Winifred, Emily, Frederick A., William T., Ger- 
trude, Joseph F., and Mary Beatrice; early life, seaman, later 
drygoods merchant; in 1866; entered the varnish business as 
salesman for William Tilden & Nephena, New York City; re- 
mained with them until 1875; came to Cleveland in 1868; in April, 
1875, entered the varnish mnfg. business under the firm name of 
Glidden-Brackett Co.; later changed to Glidden & Joy; in 1890, 
incorporated under the laws of Ohio, as The Glidden Varnish Co., 
as it is at present, pres. F. H. Glidden; vice pres. F. A. Glidden; 
sec 'y, F. K. Glidden; treas. Wm. T. Glidden; advance finishing 
dept., T. F. Glidden; pres. and director The Glidden Varnish Co., 
and director The Central National Bank; on his first visit to 
Cleveland, he was greatly impressed with educational advan- 
tages and business enterprises the city possessed, and with his 
children's welfare in view, determined to move from Miami to 



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Clevelanrl; he made no mistake and has seen the city grow from 
a population of 72,000 to over 600,000, with great possibilities for 
the future; member Clifton Club. 

GOAKES, Fred V7.; real estate; born, Oneida, N. Y., 1868; came 
to Cleveland when 9 years old; educated in the public schools, and 
business college course; entered the real estate business and fol- 
lowed it, having good success; has put through some of the big 
real estate deals of the city; Kepublican, 

GODDARD, Dwight; mechanical engineer; born, Worcester, 
Mass., Dec. 27, 1861; son of Dorrance S. and Mary H. Williams 
Goddard; graduate Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1881, Har- 
vard Theological Seminary, 1894; married, Nov. 27, 1895, Frances 
E. Nieberg, M. D.; issue, Dorrance, Theodore; treas. Goddard 
Machine Co.; asst. master mechanic American Steel & Wire Co.; 
missionary to China under the A. B. C. F. M.; mngr. Weyman & 
Gordon Co.; treas. The Park Drop Forge Co.; also director the 
same company; member American Society Mechanical Engineers; 
member Housing committee, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 

GOFF, Frederick Harris; banker; born, Blackbury, 111., Dec. 15, 
1858; son of F. C. and Catherine J. Brown Goff; University of 
Michigan, B. A., 1881; married, Cleveland, Oct. 16, 1894, Frances 
Southworth; issue, Fredericka, born Dee. 14, 1896; William S., 
born Sept. 5, 1900; Frances M., born March 22, 1903; admitted to 
the bar, October, 1883; member law firm Kline, Tolles & Goff, 
until January, 1908; since 1908, pres. Cleveland Trust Co.; direc- 
tor and member executive committee, First National Bank, pres. 
Chicago, Lake Shore «& South Bend E. E.; director National Acme 
Co.; vice pres. Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling E. E.; vice pres. 
C. T. & E. E. Co.; vice pres. A. & C. J. E. E. Co.; director The W. P. 
Southworth Co.; trustee Western Eeserve University and Hiram 
House; member Michigan branch. Delta Upsilon Fraternity and 
Union, Country, and Eowfant Clubs, Cleveland 

GOODMAN, Max P.; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, Aug. 28, 
1872; son of Jacob and Eosa (Herskovitz) Goodman; educated, 
public schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 14, 1909, Julie E. Baum- 
berger; one son, Julian M. Goodman, born, Jan. 1, 1913; council- 
man 5th district, 1899-1901; left school at 12 and worked at a 
fruit stand; at 15, drove a coal wagon; at 17, worked in a grocery 
and studied music; began to play the violin with an orchestra 
and became director; at 19, went to business college, continuing 
music study; became a stenographer; wrote The Ohio Governor's 
March for McKinley's Inaugural; obtained employment in the 
law office of Peter & Charles Zucker at 19; at 22, passed bar ex- 
amination; gave up music as a profession when admitted to the 
bar; stood highest in class of men examined at Columbus; director 
The Youngstown & Ohio Eiver E. E. Co., The Frankle Bros. Co., 
Youngstowu; P. O. Viall Lumber Co., Limited, Port Daniel, Can.; 



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pres. The Woodland Bldg. i!i: Improvemeut Co.; See 'y and treaa. 
The Trenton Eock Oil & Gas Co. and The Majestic Oil Co.; gen- 
eral mugr. The M. M. Brown Realty Co.; member Cleveland Bar 
Ass'n; formerly pres. Y. M. H. A. & T. O. B. B.; member Forest 
City Lodge, F. & A. M., National Union, I. O. B. B. Hungarian 
Benevolent and Social Union and Tippecanoe Clubs. 

GORDON, William; attorney-at-law; born, Oak Harbor, O., Dec. 15, 
1862; son of Washington and Margaret Rymers Gordon; educated, 
public schools. Oak Harbor, O., Toledo Business College, Toledo, 
O., graduate and Univ. Michigan, LL. B.; married Port Clinton Sept. 
12, 180?>; Elizabeth N. Garuhard; issue, one son and one daughter; 
taught school in Ottawa County; served four years as deputy 
county treasurer, six years a member of Board of County school 
Examiners, six years as Prosecuting atty., all in Ottawa County; 
served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at 
Chicago in 1S96 from 9th Congressional District of Ohio; member 
Democratic State Central Committee in 190;M904; moved to 
Cleveland in 1906; elected to the 63rd Congress from the 20tli 
district of Ohio in November, 1912; pres. and member board of 
directors The Gordon Lumber Basket & Mnfg. Co., Oak Harbor, 
O.; director The National Retarder Co., Port Clinton, O.; member 
American Association for the Advancement of Science; ex-officio 
(as member of Congress, 20th district, trustee of the Andrews 
Institute for Girls, at Willoughby, O.); member Forest City Com- 
mandery, K. T., Thatcher Chapter, R. A. M., and M. M. in Biglow 
Lodge; member Past Master's Ass'n of Cleveland. Recreation: 
Duck Hunting. 

QOBMSEN, James; manufacturer; born, Fyn, Denmark, Oct. 6, 
1870; son of John and Christina Jensen Gormseu; common school 
education; married, Cleveland, Dec. 15, 1894, Anna Louise Carlson; 
issue, Ray, born Dec. 30, 1903, and Hilda, born Sept. 14, 1899; 
Republican Councilman in Lakewood for four years; blacksmith 
business for fourteen years, and hardware business for one and 
one-half years; his business, as it stands today, is hand made 
harness and repairing; dealer in implements, vehicles, horsemen's 
supplies, gas engines, auto wagons; in April, a year ago he added 
a furniture dept., which met a long-felt want of the community; 
he has a very large trade from the farmers, being born on a farm, 
and meeting so many agriculturists in his business he is positive 
that he understands their needs; Ohio is a great agricultural state, 
he believes the farmer of today has advantages never dreamed of 
by former generations and that any business which can meet the 
needs of the farmer is sure to be successful; his house is recog- 
nized and patronized by the best farmers in Cuyahoga County; 
member Masons, Lakewood Lodge, Foresters, and Danish Brother- 
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QOSS, Thomas Carr; insurauee; born, Edinburg, O., April 22, 
1862; Bon of Alfred K. and Martha Carr Goss; educated in Edin- 
burg public schools, and Mt. Union College; married, Cleveland, 
Oct. 8, 1889, Anna M. Knowles; issue, two sons, Leonard Knowles 
and Alfred Edward; after leaving school, spent one year in 
father's country store; came to Cleveland, January, 1881, to attend 
business college; in May, that year, entered the service of Hull 
Vapor Stove Co.; August, 1881, entered insurance business with 
Thomas H. Geer; has remained in insurance since, except for few 
months; vice pres. Th"e O, M. Stafford, Goss, Bedell Co.; trustee 
and treas. First Unitarian Church; member Forest City Lodge, F. 
& A. M., Webb Chapter R. A. M., Oriental Commandery, K. T.; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Mayfield Country and Union Clubs. 

OOULD, Charles Winthrop; life insurance; born, Worcester, 
Mass., July 7, 1866; son of Henry and Sarah W. Howland Gould; 
educated, Boston, and Lynn, Mass., public schools; married, Los 
Angeles, Cal., June 1, 1896, Cora Lee Holcomb; continuously en- 
gaged in the life insurance business since 1882; at the age of 16, 
entered the office of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co. at 
Boston; in 1892, appointed special agent of the vice president's 
department of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; in 1909, 
formed partnership with Major Frank A. Kendall & Son, repre- 
senting the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Cleveland; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Lodge, N. 96, F. & A. M., 
Atlanta, Georgia; member Cleveland Athletic Club. 

GOULDER, Harvey Danforth; admiralty lawyer; born, March 
7, 1853; son of Christopher D. and Barbara Goulder; educated, 
public schools, graduated from Central High School in 1869; 
studied law in the office of Tyler & Dennison; married, Nov. 11, 
1878, Mary F, Rankin (deceased 1913); spent the summer vaca- 
tions working on the lakes under his father, a master of lake 
craft; in 1871, entered the employ of Alcott, Horton & Co., as 
entry clerk in the wholesale drygoods dept.; took up study of 
admiralty law under the late John E. Carey; in 1875, received 
license to practice admiralty law in the courts of the state; formed 
partnership with J. F. Weh, then with Alexander Hadden; in 
1893, associated with S. H, Holding; now head of Goulder, Day, 
White, Garry & Duncan; counsel for the Vessel Owners' Ass'n, 
member board of Industry, and Chamber of Commerce; counsel 
for the Lake Carriers Ass 'n ; prominent in plans for the improve- 
ment and betterment of the waterways of the great lakes; inti- 
mately connected with marine matters, and extensive practice in 
lake and river cities from Duluth to Montreal; recognized author- 
ity on all phases of admiralty law. 

GOWEN, Albert Younglove; born, Cleveland, May 8, 1883; son 
of Caleb and Gertrude Younglove Gowen; educated. Harvard Col- 
lege, 1907; married, Cleveland, June 2, 1909, Margaret Huntington 
Smith; one daughter, born July 7, 1910; went to public schools, 



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Cleveland, studied at University School for six years; later at- 
tended St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., going from there to 
Harvard College; at completion of college course, started to work 
in the stone quarries of the Kelly Island Lime & Transport Co., 
at Kelly Island, O.; remained there six months; then came to the 
main office in Cleveland, and has been there ever since; vice pres. 
Lehigh Portland Cement Co., Cleveland Macadam Co.; treas. 
Cleveland Builders Supply Co.; asst. treas. Kelly Island Lime & 
Transport Co., pres. Iceless Refrigeration Co.; member Union, Ath- 
letic, Tavern, Cleveland Yacht, University, Automobile, Country, 
and Clifton Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce. 

GRAHAM, Adam; florist; born, April 17, 1840, in Scotland; 
educated in schools of Scotland and United States; married, Oct. 
19, 1863, Janet Marshall, Philadelphia; issue, five children; pres. 
Adams Bag Co., Society American Florists (1897), the Saint An- 
drews Scottish Benevolent Society, Burns Curling, and Cleveland 
Florists Clubs; member Woodward Lodge, F. & A. M. 

GRAHL, George F.; mason contractor; born, Cleveland, Sept. 17, 
1882; son of John F. and Fredericka Oldach Grahl; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, June 21, 1911, Marie 
Henke; issue, one daughter; served five years in Battery A, First 
Field Artillery; for five years with the Black Engineering Co.; 
then went into contracting business; member Loyal Order of 
Moose, Cleveland Lodge, No. 63. Recreations: Baseball and 
Bowling. 

GRANT, Frank M.; electrical contractor; born, Clinton, la., 
Sept. 24, 1868; son of William B. and Sue M. Ball Grant; common 
country school and two years in High School, Fredericktowns, 0.; 
married, Frederickstown, O., July 6, 1892, Cora J. Young; two 
children, Raymund and Lucille; one of the drafters of the present 
City Electrical Code; came to Ohio when five years old; spent 
first twenty years on a farm; five years as teacher of common 
schools; one year as freight clerk in R. R. office at Columbus, O.; 
also traveling shoe salesman one year for Columbus shoe house; 
two years with Citizens Telephone Co., Columbus; then in the 
employ of Erner-Hopkins, electrical construction, Sept. 8, 1901, 
came to Cleveland and entered the employ of J. A. Erner, as 
wireman; formed partnership with W. C. Harrington, Jan. 2, 
1907, under the firm name of Harrington & Grant; sec'y and treas. 
of the Company; charter member, ex-treas. and past grand Anchor 
Lodge, No. 908, I. 0. O. P.; member Modern Woodmen; trustee 
Cleveland Chapter, Sons of Jove; Builders Exchange, sec'y Cleve- 
land Branch, National Electrical Contractors Ass'n. Recreations: 
Attending Conventions and Short Hunting Trips. 

GRASSELLI, E. R.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, 1872; son 
of C. A. and Johanna Ireland Grasselli; married, Detroit, Mich., 
April, 1901, Mabel Field; one son, Eugene Grasselli; began busi- 
ness with the Grasselli Chemical Co.; now 2nd vice pres, and 



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treas.; director Broadway Savings & Trust (Jo. and Woodland 
Ave. Savings & Trust Co.; member Union, Country, Eowfant, and 
Automobile Clubs, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce; member N. Y. 
Athletic and Chemists Clubs. 

GRASSELIil, Thomas S.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
14, 1875; son of C. A. and Johanna Ireland Grasselli; educated, 
Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md.; married. Rock Island, 
111., May 29, 1899, to Emilie Schmidt; issue, three boys; entered 
Troop A, O. N. G., 1893; appointed capt. and quartermaster First 
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, May, 1898; resigned to accept appoint- 
ment as captain and quartermaster U. S. V., and resigned after 
conclusion of war with Spain; engaged with Grasselli Chemical 
Co. in 1893; now first vice pres.; director Citizens Savings & Trust 
Co., Bank of Commerce, National Ass 'n. Woodland Ave. Savings 
& Trust Co., Broadway Savings & Trust Co., member Union, 
and Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce. 

GREENE, Edward Belden; banker; born, Cleveland, July 26, 
1878; son of John E. and Mary E. (Seymour) Greene; educated, 
Yale University, B. A., 1900; married, Cleveland, Nov. 18, 1908, 
Helen Wade; issue, one daughter, Helen W. Greene, born Nov. 12, 
1911; enlisted in Troop A, 1st Squadron, Ohio Cavalry, November, 
1900, and resigned as 2nd Heut. February, 1912; began work with 
Cleveland Trust Co. in 1900, immediately after graduation from 
College, rising through the grades of messenger, clerk, teller and 
secretary to the vice presidency; director Wade Realty Co., vice 
pres. and director Ohio Chemical Mnfg. Co.; director National 
Discount Co.; sec 'y and director City & Suburban Realty Co.; 
treas. and trustee Babies ' Dispensary and Hospital, trustee Hu- 
mane Society, and Alumni Board of Yale University; member 
Alpha Delta Phi, Yale (Wolf Head), Union, University, Athletic, 
Tavern, and Country Clubs (Cleveland); Chagrin Valley Hunt 
Club, Gates Mills, and Yale Club of New York. 

GREENLEAF, Lloyd B.; moving contractor; born, Plessis, N. 
Y., Oct. 26, 1853; son of Alfred F. and Eliza Vanallen Greenleaf; 
educated in schools of Plessis, N. Y., married, Cleveland, June 15, 
1887, Anna Knadler; came to Cleveland in 1884, with nothing, but 
has built uj) a very prosperous business; member Loyal Order of 
Moose, Protected Home Circle. Recreation: Fishing. 

GREIF, William; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Aug. 16, 1855; 
son of Vincent and Mary E. Mayer Greif; educated in Cleveland 
schools; married, Cleveland, Oct. 25, 1881, Mary Hitsch; began in 
the manufacture of kegs and barrels in 1876; pres. of the Greif 
Bros.' Cooperage Co. and the Fanner Mfg. Co.; vice pres. Euclid 
Arcade, Pioneer Lumber Co., and General Time Recorder Co.; 
treas. Columbia Mutual Lumber Co.; director in the following 
companies: Cleveland, Alliance & Mahoning Valley R. R., Forest 
City Savings & Trust Co., Ohio Savings & Loan Co., United Bank- 



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iug & Savings Co., California Eed Wood Lumber Co., and the 
Stark Electric E. E. Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Chamber 
of Industry, Cleveland Athletic, Clifton, and Lakewood Tennis 
Clubs. 

GHEINEE, Loius C; optometrist; born, Cincinnati, Ohio; son 
of Charles and Augusta Fichs Greimer; educated, Cincinnati pub- 
lie school and Hughes High School, same city; has been in the 
optical business since leaving school; formerly in the employ of 
A. M. Jordan, one of the largest optical houses in Cincinnati; 
came to Cleveland, Oct. 17, 1910; has been with The Dodd-Eogors 
Co. since; member Walnut Hill Lodge, No. 483, F. & A. M., Kil- 
winning Chapter, No. 97, E. A. M. Eecreations: Photography. 

GRESHAM, Harry Ernest; born, Sheffield, Eug., 1865; son of 
L. S. and Emily (Hooten) Gresham; educated in commercial and 
priA^ate schools, Sheffield; married; two sons and one daughter, 
went to work in cutlery factory at 134 years of age; learned the 
practical making of pocket cutlery; at 19, was manager of W. 
Nealthy & Son, pocket knife dept.; came to America in 1886; three 
years member First York and Lancaster Light Infantry; sergeant, 
four years; trustee Village of Lakewood; private sec'y to J. H. 
Wade since 1892; British Vice Consul since 1909; Past Grand, 
Tyrian Lodge, I. 0. O. F.; member Cleveland Yacht, Athletic and 
Western Eeserve Cricket Clubs. Eecreations: Cricket, Billiards 
and Gardening. 

GRIEBLING, Erich L.; fire insurance; born, Milwaukee, Wis., 
Aug. 9, 1877; son of Gustav W. and Elizabeth Damkoehler Grieb- 
ling; married, Milwaukee, Wis., May 1, 1901, Lydia Dammam; two 
sons, Erich and Ealph, employed by Milwaukee Fire Insurance Co.; 
in 1898, as entry clerk; in June, 1903, appointed special agt. to 
travel in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota; 
in April, 1905, appointed chief clerk at home office of Milwaukee 
Fire Ins. Co.; in September, 1911, appointed mngr. of Cleveland 
Branch of Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Co. 

GEIES, Moses J.; rabbi; born, Newark, N. J., Jan. 25, 1868; 
son of Jacob and Katie Gries; educated, Hughes High School, Cin- 
cinnati, University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College; 
married, Cleveland, June 15, 1898, Frances Hays; issue, two sons; 
pres. Central Conference of American Eabbis; member Board of 
Governors, Hebrew Union College, Board of Editors, Department 
of Synagogue and School Extension; member committee on Muni- 
cipal Arts and Architecture of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce (group plan) ; member board of trustees Cleveland Associated 
Charities; trustee Cleveland School of Art; Federation of Jewish 
Charities; director of The City Club of Cleveland; also past pres. 
of the following: Educational League, B'nai B'rith; Cleveland 
Council of Jewish Women ; Alumni Ass 'n of the Hebrew Union 
College; Jewish Eeligious Education Ass'n of Ohio; and the Ohio 
Rabinnieal Ass'n and pres. of Council Educational Alliance. 



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GEOLL, George 0.; supt. Morgan Lithograph Co.; born, Cleve- 
land, Aug. 2, 1861; son of J. C. and Margaret (Schubert) Groll; 
public schools until 16, then went abroad and studied art in Paris 
and Holland for two years; married, June 25, 1901, Mabel Caro- 
line Bell; upon coming to Cleveland, entered the employ of the 
Morgan Lithograph Co., in 1879; now supt. and stockholder in the 
Company; Mason; member Art Club. 

GROOT, George Anderson; attorney-at-law; born in Washington 
County, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1843; son of John Aaron and Eliza Jane 
(Heath) Groot; educated in district and common schools, attended 
Oberlin one term in 1860; attended school in Camden and Amherst 
in Lorain County, in 1864; received captain's commission from the 
College again in 1865-1867; then at Hillsdale, Mich., graduating in 
June, 1870, degree of M. S.; married, Huron, O., Dee. 12, 1872, 
Maora Agnes Sage; enlisted in the Union Army in the War of the 
Rebellion, in Co. H, 8th 0. V. I., April 20, 1861, discharged August, 
1861; re-enlisted in Co. I, 8th O. V, L, in August, 1861; dis- 
charged because of gun-shot wounds received in the battle of 
Fredericksburg; during service, participated in 33 engagements, 
elected capt. of State Militia by the voters of Camden township, 
in Lorain County, in 1864; received captains commission from the 
governor, and served until the militia was dismissed at the close 
of the war; was appointed crier of the U. S. Circuit and District 
Courts for Northern Ohio District in January, 1869, until 1873; 
entered law office of Estep & Burke, Cleveland; was admitted to 
the practice of law December, 1873; was elected to the Board of 
Education in 1876; nominated by the Republican party for Com- 
mon Pleas Judge of Cuyahoga County in 1883; defeated by a small 
majority; delegate and sec'y of the Republican State Convention 
that first nominated J, B. Foraker for Governor of Ohio; delegate 
to free silver convention in St. Louis and seconded the nomina- 
tion of W. J. Bryan as candidate for president; joined the Peoples' 
party in 1892; supported Mr. Bryan in 1896, and delivered more 
than 100 speeches for him in Ohio, Nebraska and Missouri; mem- 
ber State and County Bar Ass'ns; Mason, charter member Ober- 
lin Lodge, No. 380, F. & A. M., and still a member; 32d degree 
Mason; charter member Memorial Post, G. A. R. 

GROSSMAN, Albert; merchant; born, Bacska, Hungary, July 
20, 1867; son of William and Celia (Kestenbaum) Grossman; at- 
tended school in Ungvar, Hungary, up to age of 15; immigrated to 
this country, and came direct to Cleveland, attended public school 
for one year, and business college for six months, taking up 
stenography, married, Cleveland, Oct. 25, 1898, Helen Drechsler; 
issue, one sou and two daughter; upon arrival in 1872, worked at 
odd jobs for two years; then was for two years in the press and 
mailing room of the Cleveland Leader; April, 1886, went to work 
for Runyon, Stubbs & Mack, iron ore merchants; has been with 
the concern and its successors without interruption ever since; 
sec 'y and treas. The Struthers Furnace Co., The Plastico Non-Stain- 



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ing Cement Co., The Struthers Coal & Coke Co., New Salem Supply 
Co.; partner of Kunyon-Fairbauk Co.; member Deak Lodge, No. 
334, Knights of Pythias, Hungarian Benevolent Society and Social 
Union; member Athletic, and Standard Clubs, and Chamber of 
Commerce. 

GROSSMAN, Isador; lawyer; born, St. Ivan, Plungary, July 13, 
1880; son of Jacob and Louisa (Farkasch) Grossman; Cleveland 
public schools, Central High School, Harvard College, A. B., 1902, 
Harvard Law School, LL. B., 1904; married, St. Louis, Mo., 
January 9, 1911, Adele Seasongood; one son, James Grossman, 
born, April 8, 1912; associated with Judge A. W. Lamson, 1904- 
1906; formed law partnership with Henry B. Howells, 1906, still 
continuing; attorney for Legal Aid Society, 1906-1911; member 
firm Howells and Grossman; sec'y and director The Chandler 
Motor Car Co.; director The Grossman Drug Co.; director The 
Merit Pharmacal Co.; director The Cragin Eealty Co.; director 
The Page Realty Co.; member executive committee of The Legal 
Aid Society; trustee of The Council Educational Alliance; trustee 
of Camp Wise; member Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Harvard; 
member Excelsior, Obiter, City, and Advertising Clubs, and the 
Chamber of Commerce, 

GUNDRY, John Murton; banker; born, Mineral Point, Wis., 
Sept. 7, 1859; educated, public schools in Mineral Point and North- 
western University; left at close of junior year; three law course 
at Baldwin University, graduated, 1903, LL. B.; married, Sept. 5, 
1894, Frances Ruth Gilchrist; issue, five children; spent one year 
in Chicago, then went to Silverton, Colo.; went into the San 
Juan County Bank; became partner and cashier of the bank in 
1882; acting cashier for a time of the First National Bank of Lin- 
coln, Neb.; same position in the Schuyler National Bank of Schuy- 
ler, Neb.; in 1888, engaged in coal operations in the Santana Moun- 
tains of Southern California; left in 1889, and spent the summer 
on Puget Sound; came to Cleveland in 1890; one of the organizers, 
sec'y and treas. of the Mechanics Savings Bank; elected pres. in 
1892, continuing position when bank became Lake Shore Banking 
& Savings Co., and later Lake Shore Banking & Trust Co.; veteran 
member Troop A; Republican; member St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church, Phi Kappa Sigma and Delta Gamma Chi fraternities; 
Chamber of Commerce, and Union, University, Hermit and Euclid 
Clubs. Recreations: Golf and Music; summer home at East Or- 
leans on Cape Cod, Mass. 

GUND, George F.; brewer; born La Crosse, Wis., April 5, 
1855; educated, public school. La Crosse, Wis., and Northwestern 
University, at Watertown, Wis.; one son, George, graduated from 
Harvard, 1909; now residing in Seattle, Wash.; one daughter, 
Agnes, who attended The Mittelberger, Hathaway-Brown and 
Briar-Cliff Schools; served in the city council at La Crosse, Wis., 
for three j'ears, at the age from 22 to 25; member (three years) 



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Governor's Guard, La Crosse, Wis.; business career: Six years 
with the Batavian Bank, La Crosse, Wis.; sec'y and treas. the 
John Gund Brewing Co. of La Crosse, until 1880; when he moved 
to Seattle, Wash., and purchased an interest in a brewing concern 
there; three years later, the Seattle brewing concerns became 
the Seattle Brewing & Malting Co., of which he was pres. until 
1897; in the spring of 1897, came to Cleveland and purchased the 
Jacob Hall Brewing Co., which, on Jan. 1, 1900, was changed to 
the Gund Brewing Co.; pres. and treas. The Gund Brewing Co.; 
director, Broadway Savings & Trust Co.; Woodland Ave. Savings 
& Trust Co., Cleveland Life Insurance Co., and The Realty & 
Rental Co.; past pres. Cleveland Brewers Board of Trade; past 
pres. and trustee Ohio Brewers Ass'n; past trustee four years and 
for many years member labor committee of the United States 
Brewers Ass'n; member Iris Lodge, No. 229, Webb Chapter, No. 
14, Oriental Commandery, No. 12, Al Koran Temple, Lake Erie 
Consistory; member Athletic and Euclid Clubs. 

GUTHRIE, Tracy W.; manufacturer; born, Chicago, 111., Feb. 2, 
1866; son of Julius C. and Emily A. Tracy Guthiie; educated in 
Chicago public schools, Chiekering Institute, Cincinnati, public 
schools in Detroit, Mich., and Elmira, N. Y.; married, New Roch- 
elle, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1910, Settal Horn; pres. Continental Coal Co., 
Columbus, O., 1903-1904; pres. Republic Iron & Steel Co., Pitts- 
burgh, 1905-1911; sec'y and gen'l mgr. Standard Welding Co., 
Cleveland, to date; member Loyal Legion, Union and Country 
Clubs. 

HACKENBERG, Harvey Edward; manufacturer; born, North- 
umberland, Pa., March 8, 1864; son of Albert and Maria Brouse 
Hackenberg; public and high school education; married, Cleve- 
land, June 18, 1903, Addie May Lawrence; one son, Edward 
Hackenberg, three years old; Republican in politics; 1881, clerk 
Tuttle, Masters & Co., iron ore merchants; 1883-1888, clerk The 
Bouton Carbon Co.; 1888-1899, sec'y The National Carbon Co. of 
Ohio; 1899-1911, treas. National Carbon Co. of Ohio and New Jer- 
sey; 1912, vice, pres., sec'y and treas. National Carbon Co. of New 
Jersey; sec'y, treas., vice pres. and director The National Carbon 
Co.; director, sec'y and treas. The Lakewood Mnfg. Co.; director and 
sec'y The Dow Chemical Co.; member Cleveland Engineering So- 
ciety; member district committee, West Side Associated Charities; 
member Lakewood Baptist Church; trustee City Rescue Mission; 
member The Jovian Order, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and 
Board of Industry, and The Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, 
Union, Tippecanoe and Lakewood Tennis Clubs. Recreation: 
Tennis. 

HADDEN, Alexander; lawyer and jurist; born. Wheeling, W, 
Va., July 2, 1850; son of Alexander and Mary Welch Hadden; 
graduate of Oberlin College, A. B., class of '73; married Frances 
Mary Hawthorne, July 17, 1883, Coshocton, O. ; two children, Alice 



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and John A.; assistant prosecuting attorney, 1882-1885; prose- 
cuting attorney 1885-1901; probate judge since 1905; member of 
law firm of Goulder & Hadden, 1880-1882; Hadden & Parks, 1891- 
1902; Hadden, Parks & Griswold, 1902-1903; Wilcox, Collister, 
Hadden & Parks, 1903-1904; Collister, Hadden & Griswold, 1904- 
1905; professor of criminal law, Western Eeserve University, since 
1894; trustee, Cleveland Humane Society; member University Club, 
Chamber of Commerce, I, O. O. F. 

HAILMANN, William Nicholas; educator; born, Glaris, Switzer- 
land, Oct. 20, 1836; son of William Alexander and Babette Hail- 
mann; educated, Gymnasium, Zurich, and with tutor; studied in 
Medical College, Louisville, Ky., 1855-1856; (hon. A. M. Univers- 
ity of Louisville, 1864; Ph. D., Ohio University, 1885); married 
Eudora Lucas, of Louisville, Dec. 24, 1857 (died 1904); 2d Helena 
Kuhn, of Detroit, Dec. 25, 1907; teacher of natural sciences, 
Louisville High Schools, 1856-1865; director German and English 
Academy, Louisville, 1865-1973; director German and English 
Academy, Milwaukee, 1873-1878; director German-American Sem- 
inary, Detroit, 1878-1883; supt. public schools, La Porte, Ind., 
1883-1894; nat. supt. of Indian schools, 1894-8; supt. of instruc- 
tion, Dayton, O., 1898; head dept. psj^chology, Chicago Normal 
School, 1904-1908; prof, history of education, Cleveland Normal 
Training School since Sept. 7, 1909. Author: Outlines of a 
System of Object Teaching, 1866; History of Pedagogy, 1870; 
Kindergarten Culture, 1872; Letters to a Mother, 1876; Early 
Education, 1878; Primary Helps, 1884; Primary Methods, 1887; 
Application of Psychology to Teaching, 1887; Froebel's Education 
of Man, 1890; Constructive Form-Work, 1901; The English Lan- 
guage, 1902; The Laurel Primer, 1903; etc. Editor: Erzichungs- 
blatter, 1870-1883; Kindergarten Messenger and New Education, 
1876-1883. 

HALDY, William Oscar; dentist; born, Cleveland, April 19, 
1875; son of Frederick L. and Anna (Buschman) Haldy; D.D. S., 
Western Keserve University, 1896; married, Columbus, Oct. 2, 
1902, Emogene L. Peters; issue, one son and one daughter; served 
in Spanish-American War as quartermaster-sergeant, Battery A, 
1st O. V. A.; member Troop A, Cleveland, 13 years; pres. W. K. 
U. Dental Alumni Ass'n, 1899-1912; member Psi Omega (dental). 
United Spanish War Veterans, Veteran Ass'u, Troop A, K. of P., 
Rotary, Cleveland Athletic, and Highland Park Golf Clubs, Na- 
tional Dental Ass'n, National Dental Protective Ass'n. Eecrea- 
tions: Golf and Motoring. 

HALE, Edwin Victor; banker; born, Cleveland, Aug. 1, 1869; 
son of Edwin B. and Susan C. Hoyt Hale; educated, Yale Univers- 
ity, A. B.; married, Detroit, Mich., July 19, 1899, Florence Clark; 
children, E. V. Hale, Jr., Florence and Constance; teller Western 
Reserve National Bank, 1892-1898; asst. sec'y and treas. American 
Trust Co., 1898-1899; treas. The Citizens Savings & Trust Co., 



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1899-1903; vice pres. The Citizens Savings & Trust Co., 1913; 
director The First National Bank; member the Union, Tavern, 
Roadside Country, and Willowick Clubs. 

HALE, Willis B.; brokerage and real estate; born, Decatur, 111., 
June 17, 1847; son of E. B. and Susan C. Hoyt Hale; educated, 
Union College, class of 1870, valedictorian, Philomethean Society; 
pres. Delta Phi Fraternity; married, Cleveland, Oct. 9, 1873, Clara 
Worthington; issue, four children, Cora (Mrs. Jas. O. Rogers, New 
York); Edwin W., mining engineer, expert chemist and author, 
Eleanor (Mrs. E. C. Reader, Cleveland) ; Willis W., electrical ex- 
pert and inventor, Yale graduate; organizer of Hale Electric & 
Engineering Co. and Hale Chemistry Co.; for twenty-three years 
he was cashier of E. B. Hale & Co., the oldest private banking 
business in the city, and which later became the Marine Bank 
Co.; he was vice pres. until it was liquidated in 1894; pres. Hale 
Electric Engineering Co.; director of various companies; member 
Union, Euclid, Cleveland, Yacht, Middle Bass and Little Mountain 
Clubs. 

HALL, George Herbert; mining engineer; born, Charleston 
Mass., July 12, 1880; son of J. M. and Isabella Dunlap Hall; edu 
cated, grammar school, Charleston, Mass., High School, Chelsea 
Mass., Case School Applied Science, Cleveland, degrees of B. S 
and E. M., Case School; married, Cleveland, Sept. 2.5, 1907, Eliza 
beth J. Adams; two sons, Charles, born Jan. 4, 1909, William 
born Nov. 14, 1911; five years engineer and salesman The Gardner 
Electric Drill and Machinery Co.; at present sec 'y and sales 
manager The Cleveland Rock Drill Co.; treas. The Cleveland 
Pneumatic Tool Co., of Canada, Ltd.; member The Cleveland En- 
gineering Society, Chamber of Commerce, Fraternity Sigma Xi. 
Recreations: Golf and Tennis. 

HALL, Lewis; life insurance; born, Ox Bow, N. Y., Nov. 19, 
1857; sou of Caleb G. and Catherine J. Lewis Hall; edueatedj 
Cazenovia, N. Y., Evauston, 111.; married, Theresa, N. Y., March 
31, 1896, Henrietta C. Simouds; twenty years representative The 
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Newark, N. J., at present with 
The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., Hartford Conn.; director 
T. H. Geer & Co.; member of Wade Park Lodge, No. 800, I. 
O. O. F. 

HALL, Lucien B.; wholesale druggist; born, Brenfield, O., Feb. 
18, 1848; son of Porter B. and Mary Hinsdale Hall; attended 
Western Reserve for a time, left college to go into business; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Dec. 23, 1880, Jennie E. Lyon; one daughter. Amy 
Hall Case (Mrs. George S.); in 1870, traveled for Benton, Myers 
& Canfield; 1876, entered firm of Benton, Myers & Co.; afterward 
Benton, Hall & Co., now Hall, Van Gorder & Co.; pres. and treas. 
The Hall-Van Gorder Co.; vice pres. and treas. The Cleveland Fruit 
.luice Co.; director, The Guardian Savings & Trust Co.; director 



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Cleveland National Bank; trustee Clifton Park; at one time trustee 
Associated Charities; for fifteen years, trustee Y. M. C. A.; five 
years, chairman Board of Control, National Wholesale Druggists' 
Ass'n; pres. same association in 1906; four years, director The 
Chamber of Commerce; two years pres. The Wholesale Merchants 
Board; member Union, Clifton, Westwood Golf, and Cleveland 
Yacht Clubs. 

HAIjL, Orlando; mngr. of estates; born, Summit county, O., 
Sept. 28, 1855; son of Orlando and Sophia Towne Hall; educated, 
private schools, Cleveland Academy, Greylock Institute, AVilliams- 
town, Mass.; graduated from Yale in 1877, B. A.; studied law with 
Judge E. P. Kanney; took a course of law lectures for one year, 
and completed law studies in Columbia Law School, New York 
City; admitted to the bar in 1880, and began the practice of law 
in Cleveland; withdrew from the practice of law to devote time 
to private interests; owner of large property in Akron, which has 
been allotted; Kepublican; member Delta Kappa Epsilon Frater- 
nity, Yale and Union, Tavern, Country and Eoadside Clubs, Cleve- 
land; University and Yale Clubs, New York City. 

HALLE, 0. K.; broker; born, Bavaria, Feb. 8, 1844; son of 
Mannuel and Ida Halle; Cleveland High School education; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, 1875, Sarah Hart; four sons; started in the oil 
business with W. C. Scofield, Great Western Oil Co., also handled 
glassware and wholesale groceries; sold out in 1897; joined Cleve- 
land Stock Exchange, selling bonds, stocks and all kinds of secur- 
ities; specializing in Standard Oil stocks; charter member Excel- 
sior Club. 

HALLE, Carl; manufacturer; born, Germany, April 8, 1863; son 
of G. Halle, mother's maiden name Stem; educated in Germany; 
married, Cleveland, Oct. 20, 1895, Jennie Hoffman; issue, three 
children; served in German army; twelve years with Halle, Sch- 
warz & Skall; eight j'ears in wholesale liquor business; firm Halle 
& Abel; since 1910, sec'y and treas. of The Brown Auto & Carriage 
Co.; director Hebrew Belief Ass'n; member Elks, K. of P., and 
United Commercial Travelers. 

HALLE, Salmon Portland; merchant; born, Cleveland, Aug. 6, 
1866; son of Moses and Eebecea Weil Halle; public school educa- 
tion in Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Dec. .3, 1893, Carrie B. Moss; 
issue. Marion B., Feb. 26, 1896, Salmon Portland, IT., Jan. 13, 
1909; pres. Halle Bros. Co.; director Mutual Building & Loan Co., 
Service Eecorder Co.; Sheriff St.; member Cleveland Athletic, Ex- 
celsior, Oakwood Clubs, Cleveland; Aldine Club, New York. 

HANDERSON, Henry Ebenezer; physician; born. Orange, O., 
March 21, 1837; son of Thomas and Catherine Potts Handerson; 
A. B., Hobart, 1858; A. M., 1866; capt. and asst. adj.-gon. 2d La. 
Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A., 1861-180.3; M. D., 



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College Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), 1867; married Juliet 
Alice Boot, of New York, Oct. 16, 1872; 2d, Clara Corlett, of Cleve- 
land, June 12, 1888; prof, hygiene and sanitary science, Cleveland 
College Physicians and Surgeons, 1893-1906, prof, emeritus, 1906; 
member Cleveland Academy Medicine, Cuyahoga County Mem. 
Society (pres., 1895), Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n (pres., 
1895-1904). Editor: Baas 's Outlines of the History of Medicine, 
1889. Contributor to medical journals. 

HANNA, Gus. H.; born, Cleveland April 7, 1857; son of William 
F. and Bertha Koehl Hanna; educated in common schools eight 
years, at Buchtel College, at Akron, O., for two years; married, 
Cleveland, Jan. 10, 1883, Marie T. Getto; Democrat; iron worker 
for twenty years; in 1896, elected national vice pres. of the Bridge 
& Structural Iron Workers of America; in 1899, appointed by John 
H. Farley, then mayor of Cleveland, to the Street Department, 
re-appointed by Mayor Tom L. Johnson; in 1901, organized the 
Street Cleaning Dept., and was placed in charge of the same, 
continued as supt. until January, 1910, and re-appointed in Janu- 
ary, 1912, by Mayor Newton D. Baker; inaugurated the flushing 
system of street cleaning and holds several valuable U. S. patents 
covering the same; member of Eiverside Lodge, K. of P., also 
D. O. K. K's, Eagles and Knights of Maccabees; member Syca- 
more Club. 

HANNA, William F.; florist; born, Cleveland, March 26, 1861; son 
of William F. and Elizabeth Kroehl Hanna; public school educa- 
tion; married, Cleveland, Nov. 28, 1888, Ida Dater; one child; 
worked for Harris Jaynes, florist, for twelve years; in 1888, started 
in business for himself; pres. and treas. of the company; has been 
at same location, 3481 East 93rd St., since started; member 
Maccabees Viola Tent, No. 294; member Florist Club. Recrea- 
tions: Hunting. 

HANNSN, Aaron Kerr; life insurance; born, Pittsburg, Pa., 
1854; son of Henry and Amanda Kerr Hannen; educated, Lafay- 
ette College, Easton, Pa.; married, Pittsburg, Pa., 1882, Annie 
Piper DeArent, HoUidaysburg, Pa.; issue, one son, Harry A. 
Hannen, of Los Angeles, Cal.; thirty years with Berkshire Life 
Insurance Co. of Pittsfield, Mass.; member all Masonic bodies of 
Western Pennsylvania, and Colonial Club. 

HANNUM, Edwin Alan; physician; born, Maumee, O., Jan. 2, 
1873; son of J. L. and Eliza A. Close Hannum; educated, public 
schools, Maumee, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cleveland, 
M. D.; married, Cleveland, Sept. 4, 1907, Ollie Martin; two chil- 
dren; member Academy of Medicine; Ohio State Medical Ass'n 
and American Medical Ass'n. 



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HANSEN, George 0.; attorney-at-law; born, Sehlesui, Germany, 
May 30, 1868; son of Henry William and Hannah Peterson Han- 
sen; educated, Ohio Northern University, B. A., 1895, University 
of Michigan, LL. B., 1898; married, Cleveland, June 29, 1904, Orra 
Phillips; issue, three children; asst. county prosecutor of Cuya- 
hoga county, from 1908 to 1910; pres. Lakewood Chamber of Com- 
merce, 1912-1913; pres. Cuyahoga Couuty Sunday School Ass'n, 
1908-1910; taught country school in Wood county in 1889-1891; 
supt. of Hoytville, O., schools, 1892-1894; supt. Perrysburg, Ohio, 
schools, 1896-1897; began practicing law in Cleveland, September, 
1898; director Lakewood Bank, Crucible Steel Castings Co., and 
W. E. Minor Co.; Mason, Indepeudent Order of Odd Fellows; mem- 
ber Lakewood Tennis Club. Eecreations: Eaising Fruits and 
Flowers. 

HANSEN, Rasmus; building contractor; born, Denmark, Jan. 6, 
1870; educated, Technical School in Denmark; married, Cleve- 
land, Nov. 4, 1904, Bertha A. Simmon; three children; director 
and vice pres. American Construction Co. 

HAED, Dudley Jackson; secretary; born, Wooster, O., April 4, 
1872; son of Curtis V. and Adeline Jackson Hard; educated, Uni- 
versity of Wooster, A. B., 1893; married, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 
18, 1903, Mildred J. Hopkins; two children; First Lieut. Troop A, 
1906-1910; Adjutant First Squadron Ohio Cavalry 1910, First 
Lieut. Co. J, 8th O. V. I., War with Spain, Spanish-American War 
in campaign against Santiago; see'y and treas. The Cleveland 
Light & Power Co.; vice pres. The Wooster Electric Co.; director 
Ohio Chemical Mfg. Co.; member Military Order of Foreign Wars, 
Society of the Army of Santiago, Chamber of Commerce, Beta 
Theta Pi Fraternity, Kotary, University, Union, Hermit, and 
Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. Keereations: Tennis and Golf. 

HARRIS, Charles; university prof.; born Albion, 111., Nov. 19, 
1859; son of George and Catherine Smith Harris; A. B., Indiana 
University, 1879; Ph. D., University of Leipzig, 1883; married, 
Mary McCalla, of Bloomington, lud., Dec. 24, 1884; teacher in 
academy, Vincennes, Ind., 1883-1886; prof. French and German, 
Southern Illinois State Normal School, 1886-1888; prof. German, 
Oberlin College, 1888-1893, Western Keserve University, since 
1893; member Modern Language Ass'n, America, Phi Beta Kappa, 
Phi Kappa Psi; Episcopalian. Author: German Composition, 
1890; German Lessons, 1892; German Reader, 1895. "Editor: 
Wichert's An der Majorseeke, 1895; Goethe's Poems, 1899; Les- 
sing's Hamburgische Dramaturgic (abridged edit.), 1901, Con- 
tributor to periodicals. 

HARRIS, Edward L,; asst. supt. of schools, Cleveland; born, 
Delavin, Wis., December, 1852; son of David Franklin and Lucre- 
tia E. Rowley Harris; educated at Wayland Academy, Beaver 
Dam, Wis. and Syracuse University (A. B., Ph. B).; married, 



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Beaver Dam, Wis., December, 1878, Eva E. Gould; issue, Fred 
Gould, Eay Gould, Eva Lueile (deceased, 1896); principal high 
school, Port Jervis, N. Y., 1878-1880; teacher in Cleveland High 
Schools, 1880-1887; principal AVest High School 1887-1889; prin- 
cipal Central High School, 1889-1912; asst. supt. of schools, Sep- 
tember, 1912, to date; member National Education Ass'n (pres. 
secondary dept.); State Education Ass'n (pres. secondary dept.); 
North Central Ass'n (pres.); pres. of the State Entrance Medical 
Board; member Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, K. of P., 
Loyal League, Sons of American Kevolution, University, and 
Men's Clubs; Chamber of Commerce; wife is member of National 
and press committees of D. A. E.; vice pres. of D. A. R.; pres. 
Woman 's Club of Cleveland, and member of National Patriotic 
Educational Committee. 

HARRIS, Frank R.; cigar merchant; born, Cleveland, April 14, 
3S60; son of Benj. F. and Ellen Hall Harris; educated in the gram- 
mar schools, and graduated from High School, in 1879; first mar- 
riage, in 1883, Miss Matie Parsons, who died in 1884; second mar- 
riage, in 1895, Miss Luella Engle; worked in the business dept. of 
the old Cleveland Herald; conducted cigar and tobacco business 
in Old Weddell House, in 1890-1892; since that date, at Hollenden 
Hotel, under firm name of Quinn & Harris; Democrat; has served 
eight years on the City Council; in the Sheriff's office, 1887-1890; 
chapter Mason, Tvrian Lodge, F. & A. M., and Cleveland Chapter, 
R. A. M. 

HAST, Emmett Ellsworth; civil engineer; born, Little Valley, 
N. Y., Sept. 18, 1861; son of Austin and Dorleski Manley Hart; 
educated, public schools of N. Y. State, Cornell Universitv, 1883- 
]887, degree C. E.; married. Little Valley, N. Y., April, 1891, 
Rachel Joy Sprague; issue, seven children; two years military 
training at Cornell University; entered the service of the C, B. 
& Q. R. R., June, 1887; continued with them as draftsman, asst. 
engineer and division engineer, until November, 1895; general 
engineering practice, 1895-1897; employed by the U. S. govern- 
ment, 1897-1899 on Deep Water Ways surveys; in July, 1899, en- 
tered the employ of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. Co., 
as division engineer of the Eastern Division; in November, of the 
same year, made engineer of entire line for the same company; 
in 1906, made chief engineer, which position he still holds; mem- 
l)er the Americal Railway Engineering Ass'n and Tau Beta Pi 
(.'ornell Honary Fraternity. 

HART, George P.; grain and coal dealer; born, Sandusky, O., 
May 30, 1858; son of William and Louise Hess Hart; grammar and 
high school education, Sandusky; married, Milan, O., Aug. 11, 
1S81, Debra M. Wilcox; issue, Bertha L., Ernest G., and Bella; in 
business since 1881; stock dealer in cattle first, then became grain 
and coal dealer; came to do business in Cleveland in 1901; 32nd° 
Mason. 



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HARTSHOEN, George E.; attorney-atlaw; born, Newark, O., 
May 6, 1879; son of Martin D. and Flora Laird Hartshorn; edu- 
cated, Dennison University, B. L., Western Reserve Law School; 
married, Beloit, Kansas, April 19, 1906, Pearl Mead; partner 
Kerruish, Kerruish, Hartshorn & Spooner; member Chamber of 
Commerce, Baeta Theta Pi Fraternity. 

HABTZ, Augustus Frederic; lessee Euclid Ave. Opera House; 
born, Liverpool, England, Sept. 8, 1843; apprenticed to the stage 
(prestidigitateur) 1851; studying with a tutor during evenings; 
arrived in U. S. in 1863, and remained on the stage until 1880, 
when he settled in Cleveland; mgr. Park Theater, 1883; took lease 
of Opera House, 1884, and has retained lease ever since; pres. 
Majestic Oil Company; pres. Trenton Rock Oil & Gas Company; 
veteran member Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M.; hon. life member 
Cleveland Lodge, B. P. O. E.; member Excelsior, and Oakwood 
Clubs. 

HARTZELL, Eussell S.; rubber business; bora. Alliance, O., 
July 19, 1887; son of D. H. and Lois A. Skinner Hartzell; Mount 
Union College; manager Cleveland Branch, Goodyear Tire & Rub- 
ber Co.; member Signia Nu Fraternity; belongs to Athletic and 
Automol3ile Clubs. 

HARVEY, Allyn Fitch; transportation; born, Cleveland, Feb. 3, 
1871; son of Henry Allyn and Mary Williams Harvey; educated, 
Cleveland public schools, private tutor, Yale, 1893, A. B.; in 1894, 
began work with Pickands Mather; remained until the spring 
of 1901; when Steel Corporation was formed, took position as 
asst. to the gen. mngr. Pittsburgh Steamship Co. at that time, 
appointed asst. gen. Mngr. of above company, in 1902; is still 
with them; director Provident Steamship Co., Cleveland Folding 
Machine Co., Lake Carriers' Ass'n, and vice pres. American Fab- 
ric Belting Co.; trustee Babies' Dispensary and Hospital; member 
Shipmaster's Ass'u, American Iron & Steel Institute, Chamber of 
Commerce; member Union, Tavern, Country, Mayfield, Chagrin 
Valley Hunt, Clubs, Clevelands, and Yale Kitehi Gammi (Duluth), 
and Northland Country Club, Duluth. Recreations: Golf, Cross 
Country Riding, Shooting, Racquets and Squash (in winter). 

HARVEY, M. C; became associated with Otis & Hough, in 1901, 
and in 1906, became a member of the firm; gradiated from Yale, 
in 1899; so that practically his entire business life has been with 
this firm; at the re-organization of the firm as Otis & Co., he re- 
mained as a general partner in the business. 

HARVEY, Moses William; gen. agt. Wells Fargo & Co.; born, 
Delphi, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1852; son of Samuel and Sarah Scott Har- 
vey; common school education; married, Columbus, O., March 3, 
1875, Eliza Newman; three sons and two daughters living; two 
oldest sons deceased; engaged in express service, April, 1873, 



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and for forty years has eoutiuued iu same business; at Colum- 
bus, O., 1873, with United States Express Co.; agt, at Bradford, 
Pa., seven years for same company; agt. and gen. agt. Cleveland, 
since March, 1888, for Wells Fargo & Co.; pres. Genck Kealty Co.; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, and Tippe- 
canoe Club. 

HASCALL, G-eorge C; manufacturer; born, Yipsilanti, Mich., 
Jan. 17, 1852; son of Philander and Mary A. Christy Hascall; 
common school education; married, Alden, N. Y., April 10, 1889, 
Hattie M. Fuller; one son, Eobert G., born March 14, 1893; pres. 
The Tropical Oil Co., The Hascall Paint Co., The Union Products 
Co.; pres. The Attan Vic Paint Co., New York, and The Knicker- 
bocker Paint Co.; director The Texas Mnfg. Co., Fort Worth Tex.; 
member Knights Templar, Oriental Commanderj^ Mystic Shrine 
(Al Koran), N. M. S., Lake Erie Consistory, Webb Chapter, Iris, 
No. 229, F. & A. M., member Chamber of Commerce, Athletic and 
Automobile Clubs. 

HASEROT, Francis H.; wholesale grocer; born, Cleveland, Dee. 
19, 1860; educated in the public and German Lutheran schools 
of Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 1889, Miss Sarah Henrietta Me- 
Kinney; issue, three sons and one daughter; business career, 1881 
to 1883, merchandise broker; junior member of the firm of W. J. 
Hayes & Co.; 1886 to 1894, partner in the firm of 8. F. & F. H. 
Haserot & Co.; firm reorganized, and became vice pres. of the 
Haserot Co.; in 1903, became pres. of the company; pres. The 
Merchantile Warehouse Co., Hough Ave. Bank t^ Trust Co., and 
director The First National Bank; former pres. of the City Board 
of Education; director of the Chamber of Commerce for two 
terms; two terms member of the Republican State Central Com- 
mittee; chairman of the board of trustees of the Teachers' Pen- 
sion Committee; member Unitarian Church, Union and Euclid 
Clubs. 

HASKINS, John Henry; roofing contractor; born, N. Wilbra- 
ham, Mass., 1843; son of Enoch C. and Mary M. Davis Haskins; 
educated, Chapman Academy, Ellington, Conn.; married, Spring- 
field, Mass., 1865, Mary Carlisle; issue, eleven children; sergt. Co. 
A, 1st Conn. Cav., in the Civil War; in 1878, established roofing 
business iu Cleveland, J. H. Haskins Roofing Co.; member Cham- 
ber of Industry, Association of Master Gravel and Slag Roofers 
of America; pres. board of trustees of Franklin Ave. M. E. 
Church; has been successful in his business. 

HATCH, Henry Reynolds; retired; born, Grand Isle, Vt., Oct. 3, 
1831; son of Abijah and Abigail Lyon Hatch; early education in 
merchantile lines; married, October, 1857, Miss Lyda Baldwin, 
deceased in 1886; issue, six children, two living; second marriage, 
November, 1888, to Mary Cummings Brown of Newark, N. J.; 
issue, two children, Esther and Henry Reynolds, Jr.; early life 



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spent in mercliautile positions in New England; came to Cleveland 
in 1853, and went to work for E. I. Baldwin & Co., dry goods; 
later became a member of the firm of E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Co.; 
upon the death of Mr. Baldwin, assumed entire management of 
business with the junior partners, who later assumed control; 
corporate member and member finance committee of the Society 
for Savings; prominent in banking interests; formerly vice pres. 
and trustee Lake View Cemetery Ass'n; at that time the associa- 
tion was bankrupt; got it re-established and built the present fine 
stone oflice; has spent much time in travel abroad; elder Euclid 
Ave. Presbyterian Church; in 1890, erected a home for waifs at 
a cost of $20,000, known as Lvda Baldwin Infant's Rest; trustee 
Y. W. C. A. 

HAUSERMAN, Earl Frederic; pres. The E. F. Hauserman 
Co.; born, Parma, O., March 24, 1884; son of Frederic J. and 
Einda B. Fuller Hauserman; educated, Cleveland public schools 
and Lincoln High School, Adelbert College, W. R. U., 1907; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Aug. 6, 1907, Mary E. Martin; three children; 
asst. city purchasing agt.; mngr. Union Metal Mnfg. Co., Canton; 
vice pres. The Oveisser-Bliss Co., Cleveland; pres. The E. F. 
Hauserman Co., dealers in steel sash, cement, tile roofing, and 
factory building materials; member Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, 
Cleveland Advertising, Civic and City Clubs, and Chamber of 
Industry. Recreation: Golf. 

HAWLEY, Davis; banker; born near Hamilton, Ont., Sept. 18, 
1850; son of Davis and Sabra Amelia Lake Hawley; educated, 
district schools; married, Cleveland, November, 1873, Miss Mary 
Switz; issue, one son, Davis Hawley, Jr., born Oct. 5, 1878; em- 
ployed in Detroit, Mich., two years, came to Cleveland in 1866, 
went to work as cigar boy at the Weddell House; after three 
years entered the shops of the White Sewing Machine Co.; re- 
mained three and one-half years; in 1878, clerk Hotel Clinton, 
run by his brother, in 1878, became mngr. of the Hotel Clinton; 
in 1882, with his brother, D. R. Hawley, and John Laugton, 
erected The Hawley House, disposed of his interest to his brother 
in 1901; has since been pres. of the Cuyahoga Savings & Loan 
Co.; one of the organizers and lor a number of years until 1892, 
sec'y of the Cleveland Baseball Club of the National League; 
one of the organizers and and director Cleveland Athletic Club; 
veteran member Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, A. F. & A. M., Webb 
Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M., Cleveland Council No. 32, R. & S. M., 
Oriental Commandery, K. T., and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine; interested in real estate as an owner. 

HAYDEN, Warren Sherman; investment banker; born, Dan- 
bury, Ct., Oct. 20, 1870; son of Warren L. and Anna Flower 
Sherman Haydeu; his father was born in Ohio and mother in 
Vermont; educated, Hiram College, 1892, Ph. B.; married, Hiram, 
O., 1893, Blanche R. Squire: one daughter, Margaret Hayden; 



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second marriage, Cleveland, 1906, Elizabeth Strong; one son, 
Sherman Strong Hayden, and one daughter, Eleanor Hay den; 
pres. Cleveland Council of Sociology, 1909-1910; vice pres. Cleve- 
land Chamber of Commerce, 1912; vice pres. Investment Bankers 
Ass'n of America, 1912; pres. Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 
1913; representative Lamprecht Bros. & Co., 1892-1895; manager 
Bond Departmeut of same company, 1895-1903; member of Hay- 
den, Miller & Co., since 1903; director Union National Bank, 
Aurora, Elgin & Chicago R. E. Co., Springfield & Xeuia R. R. Co., 
Goshen Coal Co., Miami Paper Co., Boston-Virginia Transporta- 
tion Co.; trustee Hiram College; member Chamber of Commerce, 
Ohio State Board of Commerce, Ohio Archaeological Historical 
Society, Western Reserve Historical Society, New England So- 
ciety of Cleveland; member Union, University, and Nisi Prius 
Clubs; was admitted to the bar as attorney-of-law in 1898; has 
never practiced. 

HAYES, Patrick F.; cement contractor; born, Limerick, Ire- 
land, Oct. 6, 1857; son of Patrick and Ellen Fitzgerald Hayes; 
educated. Parochial schools; married, Cleveland, July 9, 1889, 
Bridget Dennig, three children, Mary, James and Florence; 
gunner in Royal Artillery, British Army, for six years; for the 
last twelve years, has been in the business of a cement contrac- 
tor; member Catholic Order of Foresters, Loyal Order of Moose, 
Cleveland, No. 63. Recreation: Baseball. 

HAYS, Eugene K.; merchant; born, Cleveland, Jan. 3, 1872; 
son of Joseph and Rosetta Swartzenburg Haj's; educated, Cleve- 
land public schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 4, 1907, Edna Feiss; 
two daughters, Carrie Feiss, born Sept. 17, 1909, Virginia Jean, 
born Jan. 27, 1912; member firm of K. & E. Blouse Makers; pres. 
Aetna Realty Co.; member Excelsior and Oakwood Clubs, and 
Chamber of Commerce. 

HAYS, Louis H.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, Jan. 24, 1874; 
son of Joseph and Rosetta Schwarzenberg Hays; educated, Uni- 
versity School, and Cornell University, 1898; married, Cleveland, 
June 25, 1902, Jessie Feiss; issue, Robert J., born June 28, 1903, 
Marie F., born Jan. 13, 1907; in 1896, began business career with 
Charles Eisenman & Co.; remained two years; then joined Louis 
Roeheimer in the decorating business. The Roeheimer & Hays 
Studio; after seven years, sold interest to Mr. Roeheimer, and 
established The Federal Knitting Mills Co.; after two years, and 
upon the organization of Charles Eisenman & Co., into the K. & E, 
Blouse Makers, returned there; still retain interest in Knitting 
Mill Co., mngr. K. & E. Blouse Makers; director The Federal Knit- 
ting Mills Co.; sec'y and treas. Aetna Realty Co.; member Council 
Sociology, Chamber of Commerce; member Oakwood, and Rotary 
Clubs, Cleveland, and Cornell University Alumni Ass'n. 



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HEALD, John C; attomey-at-law; boru, Auamosa, la., 1865; 
son of Eli and Lydia A. Williamson Heald; educated, Silver Eidge 
College, Silver Eidge, Neb.; married, Cleveland, 1902, Amanda E. 
Kick; one daughter; was prosecuting attorney oi Wheeler county. 
Neb., and police judge at Greeley Center, Neb.; Republican candi- 
date for nomination for Congress from 20th Ohio District, in 
1912; member of law firm of David & Heald, doing all the court 
work for the firm, as well as for several other firms and attorneys; 
also represent some large corporations; member Loyal Order of 
Moose, and Modern Woodmen of America; can trace his ancestry 
to Robert Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, the first Heald, of whom he is a descendant, settled in 
Philadelphia with the William Penn Colony. Recreation: 
Motoring. 

HEFFNER, George John; president; born, Cleveland, Dec. G, 
1883; son of John and Mary Henniger Hefifner; educated, Cleve- 
land public schools, Berea High School, and Baldwin University, 
class of 1908, B. S. ; Councilman of Parma Heights Village; chair- 
man of Police and Lighting Committees; pres. the Eagle Art Stone 
Co.; since 1912; has been with the company since 1908; was sec 'y 
and treas. at the time ho was elected pres. of the company; also 
makes a specialty of real estate farm properties south of the 
city; director The Harvard-Dennison Loan Co.; Mason, 32nd°; 
Lake Erie Consistory, Al Koran Temple, (Elks), B. P. O. E., No. 
18; member Chamber of Industry. Recreations; Tennis and Bil- 
liards. 

HENAHAN, Joseph P.; dentist and anaesthetist; born, Ireland, 
Oct. 8, 1875; son of P. and Anna Welsh Henahan; educated, West- 
ern Reserve University, Dental College, 1901; previous to that, 
high and parochial school education; married, Cleveland, Sept. 
14, 1904, Regina C. O'Brien, daughter of P. C. O'Brien, County 
Treasurer; two daughters, Margaret M. and Regina A.; since 
graduation, has been engaged in the general practice of dentistry 
and anaesthetistry; and special practice in extracting teeth and 
administration of anaesthetics for dental and surgical practice; 
member National Society of Anaesthetists, National Dental Society, 
Ohio State Dental Society, Northern Ohio Dental Society, and 
Cleveland Dental Society; member staff of dental surgery and 
director of dental clinics, Lakeside Hospital; member Psi Omega 
Dental Fraternity, and Athletic Club. Recreations: Golf, Hunt- 
ing and Target Shooting. 

HENDERSON, John Moreland; lawyer; born, Newville, O., April 
14, 1840; son of James T. and Ann Moreland Henderson; graduate 
Miami University, 1862; married, College Hill, O., June 20, 1872; 
seven children; member law firm of Henderson, Quail & Siddall. 



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HENRY, Frederick Augustus; lawyer; bom at Bainbridge, 
Geauga county, O., Juue 16, 1867; son of Charles Eugene and 
Sophia Marcia Williams Henr.y; A. B., Hiram College, Ohio, 1888; 
A. M., LL. B., University of Michigan, 1891; married, Louise 
Adams, of E. Smithfield, Pa., Jan. 25, 1893; in law practice at 
Cleveland, 1891-1905; judge Circuit Court of Ohio, 1905; prof, law. 
Western Reserve University, 1894-1911; pres. trustees, Hiram Col- 
lege; trustee Cleveland Y. M. C. A.; pres. Ohio State Y. M. C. A.; 
Republican; membe- Disciples of Christ; pres. Cuyahoga County 
Sunday School Ass 'n ; chairman Cleveland Committee Laymen 's 
Missionary Movement; member New Englaud Historical and Gene- 
ological Society, Cleveland Council Sociology, Philosophical Club, 
Cleveland, New England Society, Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans, 
Phi Beta Phi. Clubs: Union, University, Nisi Prius, Tippeca- 
noe, Western Reserve, Chamber of Commerce. Author: Henry 
Family Record (genealogy), 1905. 

HEBBICK, Frank Eufus; lawyer; born, Cleveland, April 26, 
1864; son of Gamaliel E. and Ursula Andrews Herrick; graduate 
of Yale University, A. B., 1888; married, Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 7, 
1891, Josephine Pomeroy; issue, Theodore Pomeroy, April 1, 1893, 
Sherlock Andrews, May 4, 1896, Josephine Ursula, Aug. 1, 1897; ad- 
mitted to bar in October, 1890, starting in office of G. E. & J. F. 
Herrick; firm of Herrick & Hopkins formed 1893; for years on fac- 
ulty of Law School of Western Reserve University, at one time 
having course in Torts and later the course in Public Service Com- 
panies; director and for time sec'y Childrens ' Fresh Air Camp; 
member Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chamber of Commerce, Country, 
Union and University Clubs. 

HERRICK, Frederick C; physician; born, Cleveland, Oct. 31, 
1872; son of Henry J. and Mary Brooks Herrick; educated, Am- 
herst College (A. B., 1894), Medical Dept., Western Reserve Uni- 
versity, (M. D., 1897), University of Goettingen, Germany, 1898- 
1900; London General Hospital, 1895-1896; married, Paris, France, 
July 20, 1898, Annie Bayard Crowell; issue, Henry C. and Fred- 
erick C, Jr.; capt. and surgeon, O. N. G., ten years, on duty with 
Troop A.; F. A. C. S. ; associate in surgery, medical Dept. Western 
Reserve University; associate in surgery. Charity Hospital; sur- 
geou-in-charge. Charity Hospital Surgical Dispensary; member Am- 
erican Uroloaical Ass'n Cleveland Academy of Medicine and Amer- 
ican Urological Union; member Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Union, 
University, and Athletic Clubs. Recreations: Pishing and Tennis. 
Author of many publications classed under medical literature. 

HEBBICK, Myron T.; banker; born, Huntington, Lorain county, 
O., Oct. 9, 1854; son of Timothy R. and Mary Hulburt Herrick; 
education in schools of Huntington and Wellington, at Oberlin 
College, and Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, O.; married, 
Dayton, O., Caroline M. Parmley; issue, one son, Parmley W. 
Herrick; admitted to the bar in Cleveland, 1878; retired from law 



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practice in 1886, to become sec'y and treas. Society for Savings; 
pres. since 1894; chairman board of directors, Wheeling & Lake 
Erie R. R. Co.; director Trust Co. of America; officer and director 
in numerous other railway and financial institutions; vice pres. 
American Bankers' Ass'n; trustee and treas. McKinley National 
Memorial Ass'n; member Republican National Committee; Gover- 
nor of Ohio, 1903-1905; Republican; U. S. Ambassador to France, 
1912. 

HEERON, Edward Manoe; contractor; born, Donegal, Ireland, 
March 22, 1857; son of George and Margueretta Manoe Herron; 
educated. National School, Balbiritra, Ireland, and Tanners and 
Hudsons College, Cleveland, four years; married, Akron, O., Sept. 
11, 1883, Matilda Elford Emery; three sons; Independent in poli- 
tics; member firm of Geo. H. Herron & Co., contracting painters 
and graiuers; was considered one of the best grainers in the 
United States; chief member of School of the Prophet in Donegal 
county, Ireland, and member Universal spies for twenty years. 
Recreation: Hunting, not for game, but for the sport. 

HEE.TNER, John H.; mechanical engineer; born, Jan, 14, 1877, 
Williams county, O.; educated, M. E., Ohio State University, 1899; 
married, Nov. 20, 1908, Erma King, Cleveland; organized Hertner 
Electric Co., 1901; Hertner Eiectric & Mfg. Co.; organized 1906, 
absorbed by re-organized Rauch & Lang Co., 1907; director and 
mechanical engineer, Rauch & Lang Co.; member Chamber of 
Commerce, Society of Automobile Engineers, American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers. 

HEYDLER, Charles; musician; born, Cleveland, O., May 20, 
1861; son of Gottlieb and Franceska Goetz Heydler; educated, 
Central High School, Cleveland; pupil of J. Hart and Adolph Nuss, 
violin, kouigloewe, and Ernest Jonas, 'cello; now instructor in 
violin and 'cello playing and 'cello soloist; director Cleveland 
Conservatory of Music; at head musical dept., LTniversity School, 
Cleveland; member Philharmonic String Quartette. 

HICKOX, Ralph W., capitalist; born, Cleveland, 0., 1850; A. B., 
Harvard, 1872; engaged in mfg. until 1885, when he retired from 
active business; first vice pres. Hocking Valley Ry. Co.; director 
Toledo & Ohio Central Ry., Kanawha & Mich. Ry. 'N. Y., C. & St. 
L. Ry. ; officer and director other corporations. Clubs: Union, 
University, Roadside, Tavern (Cleveland), Union League, Uni- 
versity, Metropolitan (New York). 

HIEBER, Henry C; funeral director; born, Oct. 9, 1879; son 
of Carl Christian and Maria Christine Hieber; educated in public 
schools, Stuttgart, Germany, and Chicago; came to Cleveland in 
1893; started to work at the Dental tool business until 1903; 
studied undertaking during that time; started in business, July, 
1903; member Concordia Lodge, No. 345, F. & A. M., Hillman Chap- 



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ter, No. 166, E. A. M., Pearl Lolge, Knights of Pythias, Cleveland 
Chamber of IndiFtry, Funeral Directors' Ass 'n of Ohio; Jennings 
?qv.are Eisine?s Men's Ass'n; Zion E\angelical, and Pilgrim 
Congregational Churches; Freiheit Unterstuezungs Verin; United 
German Union; Hvmboldt Lodge, V. D. V.; Schwaben Verein, 
The German Club, Heights Maennerchor, Schweizer Turn Verein, 
Odeon Bowling Club; ramily record deposited at the Royal State 
Library, at Stuttgart, shows patent of nobility and coat of arms 
of Hiebrrs. 

HIGBEE, William Tryon; vice pres. The Higbee Co.; born, Cleve- 
land, Oct. 24, 1867; son of Edwin Converse and Mary Haines 
Higbee; public and private school education; married, Oct. 9, 
1889, Ella M. Perdue; two sons. Edwin C. and Eugene P.; member 
Union, Rowfant, and Chagrin Valley Clubs. 

HIGLEY, Frank; lawyer; born, near St. Paul, Minn., March 16, 
1861; son of Aaron and Charlotte Finney Higley; educated, Cleve- 
land Central High School, graduated, University of Michigan Law 
School, 1884; married, Cleveland, 1891, Carrie M. Maltby; issue, 
Raymond, Albert and Charles Higley; deputy clerk of Supreme 
Court of Ohio; practiced law in Cleveland since 1884; director 
The National Safe & Lock Co.; member Chamber of Commerce and 
Tippecanoe Club. 

HILL, Hal. H.; contracting engineer; born, Detroit, Mich., Feb. 
9, 1875; son of Thomas W. and Harriette C. De La Hooke Hill; 
educated, Cornell University, class of 1897, mechanical engineer; 
early education, University School, Cleveland; contracting en- 
gineer The Erie City Iron Works, Erie, Pa.; member American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, 
Union, Roadside, Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs of Cleveland, and the 
Erie Club, Erie, Pa, 

HILL, Harry N.; gen. mgr. The Cleveland Tanning Co., born, 
Boston, Mass., 1866; son of Hosea E. and Mary Pillsbury Hill; 
educated, Cleveland Kentucky Grammar school. West High School, 
Gambier Milner Hall Academy, Kenyon College; married, Cleve- 
land, Sept. 25, 1888, Mary E. Mathivet; four children, three sons 
and one daughter; since 1899, mgr. of The Cleveland Tanning Co.; 
pres. The Cleveland Auto Top & Trimming Co., The Tanners Seal- 
lier Co. of Newark, N. J.; director The Royal Tourist Car Co.; 
chairman executive committee of the National Association of 
Patent and Enameled Sealher Manufacturers; member Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Athletic, Automobile, 
Clifton and Westwood Golf Clubs, of Cleveland, and the Beta 
Theta Pi College Club, of New York. 

HILL, Thomas William; banker; born, England, May 30, 1847; 
son of Thomas R. and Mary Alice Hunt Hill; public school edu- 
cation; married, Detroit, Mich., July 15, 1870, Harriette C. De La 



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Hooke; one sou, Harold H.; came to America with parents in 1850; 
located at Flint, Mich.; enlisted, September 1863, with the Mich- 
igan Cavalry (Custer Brigade), (Sheridan's Cavalry Corps); 
served until the close of the war; with the W. U. Telephone Co. at 
Toledo until 1869; with the same company at Detroit, as book- 
keeper and cashier, 1869-1885; transferred to Cleveland, as mgr. 
of their Cleveland ofl&ce, 1885-1892; elected cashier Cleveland 
National Bank, October, 1892; appointed member and elected 
pres. New City Hall Commission in 1898; served as such until 
January, 1912, when commission was discontinued; pres. Mer- 
chants' Banking & Storage Co.; sec'y, treas. and director Electric 
E. E. Improvement Co.; same offices in Forest City Electric Co.; 
treas. and director A. S. Gilman Printing Co. ; director and officer 
in several other corporations; member Y. M. C. A. Corporation; 
sec'y Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., Detroit, 1875 to 1885; sec'y 
Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., Cleveland seventeen years; treas. since 
1906; member Colonial, and Masonic Clubs. 

HILLEB, Frank B.; mfgr.; born, Cleveland, Dee. 29, 1874; son 
01 William F. and Christina Geiger Hiller; educated, Cleveland 
public schools; married, Cleveland, July 12, 1900, Emma E. Gross; 
three sons and one daughter; started in the sheet metal business 
at the age of 12, continuing about fifteen years, after which or- 
ganized a partnership, bearing the same name as present con- 
cern, Cleveland Metal Eoofing & Ceiling Co.; pres., gen. mgr. and 
treas. since the incorporation of the concern; doing a steadilj'' 
growing business; member Builders' Exchange; Mason, Lakewood 
Lodge, Cunningham Chapter. 

HILMAN, Max; merchant; born in 1875; educated, Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology; married, St. Louis, Mo., 1906, Helen 
Schwab; two children; for twelve years, mgr. and vice pres. the 
Emerson Elm Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.; since 1908, vice pres. and 
treas. The Lindner Co., Cleveland; vice pres. and treas. The Wads- 
worth Co., Akron, O.; vice pres and treas., The Wadsworth Stone 
Co., Cleveland; and vice pres. The Gruby Co., Logansport, Ind.; 
member The Chamber of Commerce, the Advertising Club, Oak- 
wood, and City Clubs. 

HINDSON, Thomas; master plumlier; born, England, May 25, 
1863; son of John and Ann Gibson Hindson; educated in the pub- 
lic schools of England; member Knights of Pythias Lodge. 

HIRSTIUS, August J.; ex-sheriff of Cuyahoga county; born, 
Cleveland, 1875; son of Jacob H. Hirstius; educated, public 
schools; married, 1896, Miss Anna Bente of Cleveland; issue, one 
son, Sherwood; cash boy for E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Co.; with 
G. H. Lyttle, wall paper business; remained ten years; two years 
clerk for the County Board of Eeviews; two terms member of 
City Council, from 12th Ward; active in bringing about the first 
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franchise; secured first appropriation for children's play grounds; 
elected sheriff in 1908; member German Zion Lutheran Church, 
Eagles, Major Cramer Camp United Spanish War Veterans; mem- 
ber Tippecanoe and Western Eeserve Republican Clubs. 

HOGSETT, Thomas H.; corporation lawyer; born, Highland 
county, O., May 17, 1858; son of John N. and Hanah E. Hughes 
Hogsett; educated, common and high schools and private teachers; 
studied law in the office of Hon. Charles H. Collins, in Hillsboro, 
completing law course in Cincinnati Law School, in 1882; ad- 
mitted to bar that year, but owing to ill health, did not begin 
practice until 1883; married, Columbus, Neb., June 8, 1883, Miss 
Rebecca Jones; issue, one daughter, Edith, and one son, Robert; 
in 1883, practiced law in Hillsboro; two years in practice with 
the late Judge Albert G. Mathews; then associated with Judge 
Samuel F. Steel, of Hillsboro; in 1895, came to Cleveland, and 
formed partnership with Judge G. B. Solders, at the end of three 
years appointed by Mayor Farley a director of law for the city; 
had this position during the Farley administration, then formed 
jjartnership with M. B. & H. H. Johnson, devoting his time to 
corporation practice; two terms director of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, and connected with the Municipal Ass'n; by appointment 
of ex-Gov. Harris served on the Ohio Tax Commission; member 
Ohio and Cleveland Bar Ass'n; trustee Calvary Presbyterian 
Church; member Union, Euclid, and Columbus Clubs. Recreations: 
Golf and Horse-back Riding. 

HOLDEN, Guerdon Stearns; sec 'y Hollenden Hotel Co.; born, 
Clc\ eland, Dec. 9, 1881; son of Liberty E. and Delia Elizabeth 
Bulkley Holden; educated at University School, Cleveland, Wor- 
cester Academy, Harvard University (A. B., 1904); married, 
Springfield, 111., June 3, 1911, Elinor Chase; sec'y Hollenden Hotel 
Co., director Plain Dealer Pub. Co.; member Phi Beta Kappa, 
Chamber of Commerce, Country, University, and Harvard Clubs. 

HOLLYDAY, John Wilson; supt. Railway Mail Service; born, 
Findlay, O.; son of Robert H. Hollyday, D. D.; his mother's name 
was Lydia A. Patterson; educated, High School, Findlay, O., and 
Business College, Cleveland; married, Washington, D. C, Sept. 29, 
1886, Mary Elizabeth Earner; issue, one daughter, Eleanor; early 
life spent in mercantile pursuits; appointed to railway mail ser- 
vice, March 4, 1878; transferred to office Gen. Supt. Washing- 
ton, D. C, 1885; made chief clerk to Gen. Supt., Aug. 1897; 
made chief clerk to Second Asst. Post Master General, February, 
1907; made supt. Railway Mail Service, Cleveland, Oct. 13, 1911; 
assumed duties Dec. 4, 1911; transferred to be supt. Railway Mail 
Service, Boston, Mass., June 6, 1913; assumed duties June 8, 
1913; member National Geographic Society, Euclid Lodge, No. 
559, F. & A. M., Cleveland; and Lodge Encampment Rebekah and 
Canton Organization of No. 2, I. O. O. F. 



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HOLOCKEE, Alexander C; contractor; born, Cleveland, Aug. 
26, 1880; son of Henry and Sophia Noll Holocker; public school 
education; married, Cleveland, Aug. 26, 1903. EfBe J. Tedder; 
issue, three daughters, Eva, Florence and Effie; ten years with the 
city in engineering department; grading and contracting work for 
a Lumber of years now. Kecreation: Baseball. 

HOPKINS, Benjamin F.; railroad promotor and builder; born, 
Cleveland, 1876; educated, Cleveland public schools. Western Re- 
serve Academy and Adelbert College, West Reserve University; 
one of the promoters of "The Belt Line"; connected with various 
other railroad and construction enterprises; see 'y and treas. Cleve- 
land Short Line R. R. Co., and Belt & Terminal Realty Co.; mem- 
ber Elks, Mason, Knights Templar and Shriner, 

HOPKINS, David Harris; lawyer; born, Granger, Medina 
county, 0., Oct. 8, 1882; son of Chauncey J. and A'lie Harris Hop- 
kins; graduated from Granger High School in 1900; following year 
attended Ohio Northern University, and graduated from Baldwin 
University, 1911, receiving LL. B. degree; married, Granger, O., 
Jan. 16, 1904, Vira Marie Kerstetter; opened his law office in the 
Engineers' Bldg. in November, 1911; interested in farming and 
breeder of Holstein-Friesian cattle, Poland China swine and fancy 
poultry; director The Cleveland Poultry Breeders' Ass'n Co.; 
member Masons, Odd FeLows, Maccabees, and Sigma JKappa Phi 
Fraternity. 

HOPKINS, Evan Henry; lawyer; born, Johnstown, Pa., Nov. 
4, 1864; son of Dav.d J. and Mary Jeffreys Hopkins; A. B., Adel- 
bert College, 1889; LL. B., Harvard, 1892; married, Frances P. M. 
Shain, of Cleveland, Dec. 27, 1892; admitted to bar, 1891; in prac- 
tice at Cleveland since 1892; member law firm of Herrick & Hop- 
kins; member faculty and registrar, 1892-1895, dean law dept., 
1895-1910, Western Reserve University; member and sec 'y Cleve- 
land Public Library Board, 1892-1898; member Board Park Com- 
m ssioners, Cleveland. 1900-1901; Presbyterian; Republican; con- 
tributor to legal publications; member University Club. 

HOPKINS, William Rowland; lawyer; born, Johnstown, Pa., 
July 26, 1869; son of David J. and Mary Jeffreys Hopkins; edu- 
cated, Western Reserve Academy, 1892, Adelbert College, West- 
ern Reserve University, 1896, A. B.; Law School, West- 
ern Reserve University, 1897, LL. B.; married Cleveland, June 
11, 1903, Ellen Louise Cozad; member Citj' Council, 1897- 
1899; active in promotion and construction of the Cleveland 
Short Line R. R., working out a system oi rapid transit for Cleve- 
land; director The Cleveland Short Line R. R. Co.; vice pres. and 
treas. the Belt & Terminal Realty Co.; pres. The Cleveland Under- 
ground R. R. Co., the Subway Realty Co., the Junction Realty Co., 
the Regan Realty Co., The Hopkins Holding Co.; director the Deck- 
man-Duty Brick Co.; pres. The Railway Contracting Co.; member 



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American Economic Ass'n, American Political Economic Ass'n; 
men ■■ er Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi Frater- 
nities; Mason, K. P.; member University, Willowick, Athletic 
Clubs, (Cleveland); City Club, New York; Asheville Club, Ashe- 
ville, N. C. 

HOPPLE, Elden J.; la,wyer; born, Crawford county, Ohio, Feb, 
5, 1S81; son of Jeremiah and Martha Schieber Hopple; educated, 
Heidelberg University, Tiffin, O.; Western Eeserve University Law 
School; early education, public schools; married, Cleveland Oct. 
12, 1912, Elizabeth Benoit; State Senator 80th Democratic Gen- 
eral Assembly; admitted to practice law June, 1905; member firm 
of McCullough & Hopple; previous to admission to the bar, taught 
school for three years, in the public schools of Crawford county; 
director Cleveland Chamber of Progress; member Bunton D. Bab- 
cock, F. & A. M., No. 600, McKinley Chapter, E. A. M., No. 181, 
B. P. O. E. No. 18; member City Club. 

HORNEE, James Eichey; physician; born at Tarentum, Pa., 
June 7, 1861; son of Rev. Joseph and Caroline McCraeken Horner; 
graduated, Pittsburg Central High School; M. D., Homeopathic 
Hospital College, Cleveland, 1883; M. D., New York Homeopathic 
Medical College, 1884; M. D., Western Reserve University, 1907; 
(hon. A. M., Allegheny College, Pa., 1885); resident surgeon 
Ward's Island (N. Y.), Homeopathic Hospital, 1884; physician, 
1885, and later staff obstetrician. Homeopathic Hospital, Pittsburg; 
general practice, Pittsburg and Allegheny, until 1896; abroad 
seven months, 1896; assistant to Hughlings Jackson, neurologist 
Queen's Square Hospital, London; special study diseases of ner- 
vous system; asst. puysician, staff of State Homeopathic Hospital 
for the Insane, New York, 1897; now in exclusive practice in men- 
tal and nervous diseases; was registrar and prof, neurology and 
electro-therapeutics, now prof, psj'chiatry and insanity, Cleveland 
Homeopathic Medical College; was neurologist and pres. of staff, 
Huron Street Hospital, sec'y and editor official journal American 
Institute of Homeopathy. 

HORNING, V/alter R.; electric engineer and mfg.; born, Alle- 
gheny, Pa., Sept. 2, 1882; son of Charles F. and Anna M. Walter 
Horning; educated, common schools, Howe Military Academy 
(Military degree). Case School Applied Science, special and elec- 
trical course; married, Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1908, Leoy May Oakley; 
Sergt. Maj. 5th Regiment, O. N. G., 1910-1912; first technical posi- 
tion held as electrical engineer The Williams Telephone & Mfg. 
Co.; after-vards road erector for Electric Controller & Mfg. Co., 
and in 1906, started the business of which he is now the pres.. The 
Horning Electric & Mfg. Co.; pres. and treas. member American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers; Masonic, Woodward Lodge, Mc- 
Kinley Chapter, Al Sirat Grotto; member Benevolent and Pro- 
tective Order of Elks, Athletic and Cleveland Eifle and Revolver 
Clubs. 



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HORTON, WUliam Perry; dentist; bom, Pittsfleia, Vt., Oct. 23, 
1832; Bon of Dennis and Nancy B. McClellan Horton; educated in 
Wallingford, Vt.; preparing for college at Castleton Seminary; 
taught district school for seven years; in October, 1844, came to 
Cleveland, and in 1845, entered Oberlin College; after a year's 
literary course took dental course in study under Dr. George B. 
Minor and Dr. Ferris at Milwaukee, Wis.; married, Elyria, O., Oct. 
28, 1851, Louisa Chase of Maine; issue, two sons, William P. Jr., 
and Milton Chase, both residents of Cleveland; married, second 
time, Oct. 21, 1897, Miss Margaret Stroup of Pennsylvania; during 
dental study in Milwaukee, spent the winter months in school- 
teaching; in 1851 returned to Oberlin and acted as manager of a 
department store till 1851; then spent six months more with dental 
firm in Milwaukee and was given certificate of qualification for 
the practice of dentistry; opened an office in Oberlin in 1852; re- 
moved to Cleveland and opened an office with the late Dr. Benjamin 
Stickland; in 1857, opened an office alone in Chapin 's Hall, pres- 
ent site of Williamson Bldg; identified with the dental profession 
in Cleveland, being dean of the profession; active in the various 
dental societies and associations; was the third pres. of the Ohio 
State Dental Society; also pres. of the Society of the Ohio Col- 
lege of Dental Surgery, and of the Northern Ohio Dental Society; 
sec 'y and treas. of the State Board of Dental Examiners, and sec 'y 
of section 7 of the American Dental Ass'n; contributor of many 
professional articles to the dental magazines; member of City 
Council, 1869-1877, and pres. of that body for eight years; vice 
pres. New England Society, representing Vermont; member 
Sociological Society, and was for a quarter of a century, member 
Chamber of Commerce, resigning in 1908; helped to organize the 
Republican party, having previously been a Whig; formerly a 
member and treas. of Plymouth Congregational Church; now mem- 
ber of Windemere Presbyterian Church, and active in the Presby- 
terian Union; fond of hunting; belonged to the Toussaint Shoot- 
ing Club for twenty years. 

HOUGH, Addison Hills; broker; born, Cleveland, May 23, 1869, 
son of Alfred B. and Ada Rhodes Hough; educated. Brooks Mili- 
tary Academy and Yale, graduating in 1890; in various depart- 
ments of the Brush Electric Co. until 1895; went into partnership 
with C. A. Otis, as Otis, Hough & Co., iron, steel and commission 
business; firm changed; went into brokerage business with Mr. 
Otis, firm name Otis & Hough; connected with various other busi- 
ness enterprises; member Chamber of Commerce, Psi Upsilon, and 
the Scroll and Keys Senior Societj', Yale; member Second Pres- 
byterian Church, Union, Tavern, and Country Clubs. 

HOUSE, Augustus F.; physician; born, Cleveland, Oct. 7, 1847; 
son of Hudson M. and Mary Snyder House; studied at Woodville 
and Oberlin; graduated Western Reserve Medical College; post- 
graduate work at Vienna, Berlin and London; married, Cleveland, 
1872, Mary Grace Cleave; two children; clinical professor of sur- 



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gery, College of Physiciaus and Surgeons, Cleveland; director and 
member of finance committee of Lake Shore Banking & Trust 
Co.; member American Medical Ass'n, Ohio State Medical Ass'n, 
Cleveland Academy of Medicine (president, 1898); pres. of medi- 
cal staff and trustee St. Clair Hospital; Past Eminent Commander 
of Oriental Commanderv, K. T., Past Most Excellent High Priest, 
Webb Chapter, R. A. M., Past Master, Cleveland City Lodge, F. & 
A. M.; member of Library Board five years; member Co. Q, 3d 
Ohio Veteran Vol. Cavalry. 

HOUSUM, Bird W.; merchant; born in Miami county, O., in 
1861; public school education; came to Cleveland in 1866; married 
in 1882, to Miss Ada Weber, of Nashville, Tenn; issue, one son, 
Charles Robert Housum; at the age of 15, went to work for G. 
A. Stanley, in the oil business; in 1885, representative of the 
Oil Dept., of Armour & Co.; in 1889, with J. F. Grace; organized 
the firm of B. W. Housum & Co.; the firm, as now organized and 
incorporated, represents The American Sugar Refining Co., The 
Postum Cereal Co., Armour & Co., Fels Naphtha Soap, and other 
important concerns; member Baptist denomination; Republican; 
Mason, member Woodward Lodge, No. 508, A. F. & A. M., Lake 
Erie Consistory, Oriental Commandery, and Al Koran Temple, 
Mystic Shrine; member Royal Arcanum, National Union, the Royal 
League, and Commercial Travelers; Union, Tavern, Country, and 
Roadside Clubs, Cleveland, and the Ohio Society of New York. 

HOWARD, Albert E.; carpenter and builder; born, Thurso, 
Canada, Sept. 6, 1861; son of David C. and Sally Hillmau Howard; 
educated public schools of Thurso, Canada; married, Ottawa, 
Canada, Oct. 3, 1883, Sarah J. McMillian; three children; mem- 
ber Independent Order of Foresters, and Chamber of Industry. 

HOWARD, William Travis; pathologist; born, Sans Souei, 
Statesburg, S. C, March 13, 1867; son of John and Mary Catherine 
Maeleod Howard; student University of Virginia, 1885-1887; M. D., 
University of Maryland, 1889; graduate student Johns Hopkins, 
1889-1893"; married at Watch Hill, R. I., Mary Gushing Williams, 
of Baltimore, Aug. 15, 1896; engaged in teaching and research in 
pathology since 1892; prof, pathology. Western Reserve Univer- 
sity since 1894; pathologist to Lakeside, City, Charity and St. 
Alexis Hospitals; bacteriologist. Board of Health of Cleveland. 
Author of numerous papers in pathology and bacteriology; member 
Ass'n American Physicians, American Ass'n of Pathologists and 
Bacteriologists (pres. 1902); American Ass'n Anatomists, A. M. A., 
Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce (chairman committee on municipal sanitation). 

HOWE, Albert Z.; contract nigr.; born, Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 
9, 1872; son of Albert E. and Olga C. Zallee Howe; educated, 
public schools, Buffalo, N. Y., and private tutor in mathematics, 
geometry, and trigonometry; married, St. Louis, Mo., July 31, 



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1897, Mary Frances Hogue; first business experience, at seven- 
teen years of age, was in surveying and civil engineering in 
Buffalo, N. Y., followed by several years of the same class of work 
in railroad construction in the West and Southwest; later chief 
draftsman for the St. Louis Water Department, six years, when 
the sedentary occupation compelled a change; came to Cleveland 
as local mgr. for a large manufacturing concern, making adver- 
tising specialties; now engaged as contract mgr. for Ernst & 
Ernst, Certified Public Accountants, of Cleveland, New York 
City, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati; member Chamber of 
Commerce. 

HOWE, Charles Sumner; college pres.; born, Nashua, N. H., 
Sept. 29, 1858; son of William R. and Susan D. Woods Howe; 
B. S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Boston University, 
1878; post-graduate course, mathematics and physics, Johns Hop- 
kins; Ph. D., University of Wooster, 1887; (Sc. D., Armour Insti- 
tute Tech., Chicago, 1905; LL. D., Mt. Union College, Ohio, 1908; 
and Oberlin College, 1911); married, Abbie A. Waite, of North 
Ahmerst, Mass., May 22, 1882; prin. Albuquerque (N. M.), 
Academy, 1879-1881; prof, mathematics and astronomy, Buchtel 
College, 1883-1889; prof, mathematics and astronomy, 1889-1902, 
acting pres. 1902-1903, pres. since 1903, Case School of Applied 
Science; fellow A. A. A. S., Eoyal Astronomical Society; member 
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, American Mathematical 
Society, Astronomical and Astro-Phys. Society America; author 
various articles in Astronomical Journal and Journal of Association 
of Engineering Societies; trustee Cleveland Humane Society, Phi 
Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi; University and Row- 
fant Clubs, Cleveland; and University Club, Washington. 

HOWE, Edward Lyman; banker; born, Columbus, O., Aug. 14, 
1875; son of Brainard Harris and Sarah Augusta Beecher Howe; 
educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Feb. 25, 
1901, Mary Frances Mattison; issue, Sarah, Charles Mattison and 
Mary Elizabeth; business career, with Hower & Higbee, 1889-1892; 
Euclid Ave. National Bank. 1892-1897; Cleveland Trust Co., 1897- 
1901; Prudential Trust Co.', 1901-1904; Citizens Savings & Trust 
Co., 1904-1905; Superior Savings & Trust Co., 1905 to date; treas., 
vice pres. and director Fuller Canneries Co.; treas. and director 
Workingmans' Collateral Loan Co.; treas. and director Jenkins 
Steamship Co.; trustee Young Men's Christian Ass'n; member 
Sons of American Revolution, Athletic and Glen Valley Clubs. 
Recreation: Out-door Life. 

HOWE, William Addison; merchant; born, Cleveland, O., March 
4, 1839; son of Amariah D. and Elizabeth Shaw Howe; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Jan. 17, 1866, Rachel 
Sage; issue, one daughter, three sons; served three years in the 
Civil War, as private, sargeant, 1st and 2nd lieut. and capt. in the 
7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; pres. Cuyahoga Soldiers' and Sail- 



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ors' Monument Committee; vice pres. Society Army of the Po- 
tomac; past commander Army and Navy Post; several years in the 
picture frame business; established, in 1878, incorporated, in 1895, 
business for mounting and finishing paper for lithographers and 
printers; specializing in hangers, posters, show cards, etc.; pres. 
The Wm. A. Howe Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Euclid 
Ave. Baptist Church, Masonic Fraternity, Loyal Legion, Grand 
Army of the Republic, Society Army of the Potomac. 

HOWLAND, Paul; congressman; born, Jefferson, O., Dec. 5, 
1865; son of W. P. and 2^sther Elizabeth Leonard Howland; A. B., 
Oberlin College, 1887, A. M., 1894; LL. B., Harvard, 1890; mar- 
ried, Jessie F. Pruden, of Burghill, O., Jan. 18, 1905; practiced at 
Jefferson, 1890-1894; at Cleveland, since 1894; senior member law 
firm of Howland, Moffet & Niman; member 60th, 61st, and 62d 
Congresses (1907-1913), 20th Ohio Dist.; Republican; 2d lieut., 1st 
Ohio Cav. in Spanish-American War, 

HOYT, James Humphrey; lawyer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 10, 
1852; son of James Madison and Mary Ella Bebee Hoyt; educated, 
public schools, Hudson Academy, one year Western Reserve Uni- 
versity, two years Amherst College, graduated. Brown University 
in 1874, gracTuated, Harvard Law School, LL. B. 1877; married, 
June 17, 1884, Jessie P. Taintor; issue, one daughter, Katherine 
Boardman and one son Elton XL; formed law partnership with 
H. S. Sherman, firm name, Sherman & Hoyt; later Willey, Sher- 
man & Hoyt, and then Sherman, Hoyt & Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin; 
now firm name is Hoyt, Dustin, Kelly, McKeehan & Andrews; 
gives attention to civil practice; prominent Republican; nom- 
inated candidate for Governor in 1895; member Union, Tavern, 
Country, Euclid, Roadside, Mayfield Golf, and University Clubs, 
of Cleveland; Corinthian Yacht, New York Yacht and Metropoli- 
tan Clubs, New York City; noted as brilliant after-dinner speaker. 

HUBBAED, Sterling William; pig iron; born, Springfield, O., 
March 20, 1877; son of Charles M. and Clara C. Diehl Hubbard; 
educated at Ohio State University; married, Cleveland, Feb. 20, 
1907, Helen H. Bartow; issue, one son and one daughter; asso- 
ciate resident mgr. Rogers, Brown & Co.; director Lake Erie Ore 
Co., Pittsburg Iron Ore Co., Huron Iron Mining Co.; member Beta 
Theta Pi, Hermit and East Erid Tennis Clubs, Chamber of Com- 
merce, Erie Club, Erie Pa. 

HUBBELL, Benjamin S.; architect; born, Leavenworth, Kas., 
July 11, 1867; educated, Cornell University, in senior year won 
scholarship in architecture, and was elected member of the 
Sigma XI, took degree in architecture in 1894; now practising 
under the name of Hubbell & Benes; firm was architect for Wade 
Memorial, Citizens Bldg., Cleveland School of Art, and other im- 
portant structures; member Masons, Chamber of Commerce, 
American Institute of Architects and Colonial Club. 



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HUDLETT, John; baker; boru, Germauy, Jan. 14, 1875; sou of 
Fred and Magdalena Spaiser Hudlett; educated, Gymnasium at 
Zweibuncnen, Germany; married, Detroit, Mich., Nov. 28, 1903, 
Antionette Biringer; one daughter, Antionette; master baker for 
10 years; located at 14330 Eueli<l Ave.; member Master Bakers' 
Ass'n. Recreation: Motoring. Was delegate to the Stodtoer- 
band. 

HUQHES, Felix; singer; born at Lancaster, Mo., Oct. 1, 1874; 
son of Felix Turner and Jean Amelia Summerlin Hughes; brother 
of Rupert H. (q. v.); academic education; studied at Rudy Insti- 
tution, Paris, and under singing masters in Paris, Berlin and Lon- 
don; married, Adella Prentiss, of Cleveland, Oct. 5, 1904; appeared 
in concerts in France; made debut in La Juive, Liege, Belgium; 
returned to United States, 1901; has sung in concerts, recitals, 
and oratorios under Van der Stucken and Paur; baritone; reper- 
toire includes 40 operas and all standard oratorios. Clubs: Her- 
mit, Euclid, Mayfield Country. 

HULETT, Ralph Martin; architect; born, Cleveland, March 28, 
1878; son of Martin Paul and Esther Fawcett Hulett; graduated 
from the Cleveland public schools in 1891, then took up the study 
01 architecture under special tutors; married, Bradford, Pa., Aug. 
28, 1895, Clara C. Goodyear; one boy, Coulter Townsend Hulett, age 
15; was architect for numerous buildings in Cleveland, such as 
high class apartments and residences. The Farmers' & Mechanics' 
Bank Bldg., the lodge rooms of Brooklyn Lodge, F. & A. M., The 
Richmond Hotel, Akron and several school buildings for the cen- 
tralized school districts adjacent to Cleveland and Akron; since 
forming the Ralph M. Hulett Co., have specialized and designed 
numerous factories in and around Cleveland; designed the Chris- 
tian Missionary Alliance, hotel at Beulah Park; organizer and 
head of the Ralph M. Hulett Co., architects and engineers, main 
office, Lenox Bldg., Cleveland; the firm has representatives in Akron 
and surrounding towns; associate member the Cleveland Real 
Estate Board; member Brooklyn Lodge of Masons, 454, and 
Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 135. 

HITIili, John Bartlett; patent lawyer; born, Arlington, Va., Oct. 
31, 1866; son of Truman P. and Eliza E. Bartlett Hull; educated, 
Washington High School, Cadet School U. S. Revenue Cutter 
Service, Columbia University, Bachelor of Science; National Law 
School (Washington, D. C), LL. B.; married, Macomb, 111., 
June 21, 1893, Adelina V. Sommers; three children, two daughters 
and one son; Cadet 3rd Lieut, and 2nd Lieut. U. S. Revenue Cut- 
ter Service; patent examiner United States Patent Office eight 
years; has practiced patent law in Cleveland for over ten years; 
member firm of Fouts & Hull, patent lawyers; member firm of 
Bates, Fouts & Hull, patent lawyers; senior member present firm 
of Hull & Smith, patent lawyers; vice pres. The Perfection Spring 
Co., also director; sec 'y and director The U. S. Elastic Fiber Co.; 



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pres. and director The Eugiue Holdings Co.; vice pres. and director 
The Goby Engine Co.; member Society Automobile Engineers, 
Woodward Lodge, F. & A. M., Cleveland Chapter, Oriental Com- 
mandery. Lake Erie Consistory, Al Koran Shrine; member Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Athletic and Euclid Clubs. Recreation: Golf. 

HXJMPHREY, David H.; gen. mgr. The Humphrey Co.; born, 
Townsend, O., June 5, 18-55; son of Dudley and Mabel Truman Fay 
Humphrey; educated in the district schools; spent years in farm- 
ing and was engaged in business with his brothers before coming 
to Cleveland; since coming to the city has spent his time in de- 
veloping the business of The Humphrey Co., and has had a large 
part in the remarkable success of the enterprise; his father came 
to Ohio in ]835, from Goshen, Conn., his birthplace; he located 
in Parma, O.; was engaged with his brother in the lumber busi- 
ness; he removed to Townsend, Huron county, where he pur- 
chased a large tract of land and engaged in the saw mill busi- 
ness, erecting over forty saw mills in the western States; he was 
the inventor and patentee of the woven wire and picket fence, 
which was patented in 1867. Eecreation: Reading and a student 
of Philosophy. 

HUMPHREY, Dudley S.; pres. The Humphrey Co.; born; Town- 
send, O., May 19, 1852; son of Dudley Sherman and Mabel Tru- 
man Fay Humphrey; educated, district schools and Buchtel Col- 
lege; married, Wakeman, O., Sept. 3, 1879, Etfie D. Shannon; issue, 
Mabel Elizabeth, born June 12, 1880, Harvey John, born Jan. 7, 
1884, and H. Louise, born June 9, 1898; after leaving school worked 
on his father's farm and engaged in other business interests until 
his father died in 1876, when with his brothers assumed the 
management of the estate; in 1884, was engaged with his brothers 
under the firm name of Humphrey Bros., seed growers, Wakeman, 
O.; in June, 1893, came to Cleveland and began the popping and 
retailing of pop cowi without any capital; later engaged in mak- 
ing pull candy; in 1901, secured Euclid Beach Park which firm 
has operated ever since, making it the largest, cleanest, best pat- 
ronized, and best paying summer resort in the country; in the 
autumn of 1907, firm built and opened the Elysium Rink, at Uni- 
versity Circle; this is the largest and finest ice rink in the United 
States; pres. The Humphrey Co.; Mabel Elizabeth Humphrey is 
second vice pres.; Mrs. D. S. Humphrey is sec'y and treas. of the 
comiaany; Harvey John is asst. treas., and H. Louise, is the young- 
est member of the firm; treas. Ohio Good Roads Ass'n; good roads 
are his hobby; member Chamber of Commerce, Athletic and Auto- 
mobile Clubs. 

HUNT, William Henry; life insurance; born, Warren, O., Jan. 
28, 1868; son of William B. and Rabecca Myers Hunt; public 
school education; married, Akron, O., Oct. 15, 1912, Maryi Fair- 
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tecture, Chamber of Commerce; member Wholesale Merchants' and 
Manufacturers Board; for a number of years vice pres. of the 
Hydraulic Pre?s Eriek Co.; member of the executive committee 
of the National "Prick Manufacturers Aes 'n and became pres. in 
1901-1902; pres. the Ohio Face Eriek Ass'n, 1907-1908; four years 
pres. of the Builders' Exchange, now an honorary member; two 
years director Cleveland Chamber of Commerce; since 1909 have 
been pres. of the Cleveland Life Insurance Co.; trustee and treas. 
St. Lukes' Hospital Ass'n; trustee Hiram House; director Work- 
ingmen 's Collateral Loan Ass'n; life member Associated Charities 
and a member of the finance committee; in 1910 pres. the Cuya- 
hoga County Centennial Commission; vice pres. the Civil Federa- 
tion of Cleveland; vice pres. for the Society for Promoting the 
Interests of the Blind; member City Planning Commission of 
Cleveland and Aquarium Commission; member Union, Euclid, May- 
field, Rowfant and Athletic Clubs. Recreations: Travel and "The 
Hemlocks"; his summer home at Independence, O. 

HUNTER, Alexander A.; sec'y and treas. The Western Reserve 
Woolen Co.; born, Lakewood, O., May 1, 1873; son of William 
and Sarah R. Hunter; educated, Collinwood public school and 
Spencerian Business College; married, Nottingham, O., 1898, Annah 
G. Weber; issue, two children, Malcolm J., aged 9, and Victor A., 
age 4; upon leaving school secured position as clerk in the office 
of the Murphy Varnish Co.; was promoted from time to time and 
served the above company as bookkeeper for several years; in 
December, 1904, accepted a position with the Western Reserve 
Woolen Co.; in January, 1907, was elected sec'y, and January 16, 
1911, was elected sec'y and treas., which position he now holds; 
m.ember East Congregational Church, Cleveland Commercial 
Travelers' Ass'n, and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Recre- 
ations: Home and Gardening. 

HUNTER, William Ross; contractor; born, Gillardsport, Pa., 
Oct. 24, 1869; son of Joseph and Lucinda Dukate Hunter; common 
school education at Masontown, Pa.; married, Masontown, Pa., 
Jan. 1, 1902, Haddie May Willard; three children; plastering con- 
tractor; has worked at the business for 25 years, served appren- 
ticeship under his father; aim has always been to please cus- 
tomers; member Odd Fellows. 

HUSBAND, Arthur J.; dentist; born, Toronto, Can., June, 1864; 
son of George H. and Helen McBride Husband; educated, Rich- 
mond Hill High School, and Royal College of Dental Surgeons of 
Ontario, Can.; married, in Illinois, July 15, 1888, Elizabeth Agnes 
Henry; issue, Eva, born Jan. 3, 1890, Ruby, born Jan. 1, 1894, 
Harold, born June 3, 1895; began practice in Toronto in 1885; 
practiced there for sixteen years; located in Cleveland in 1905; 
member of Ohio State Dental Society and Cleveland Dental 
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HUSTON, Frederick Wilhelm; attorney-at-law; born, Millers- 
burg, O., 1889; son of John and Sarah Close Huston; educated, 
Western Reserve University, LL. B.; member the firm Huston, 
Huston & Bricker; member Theta Lambda Phi, William R. Day 
Chapter, The Singers Club and Trinity Cathedral Choir. 

HUTCHINS, John Corydon; lawyer; born, Warren, O., May 8, 
1840; son of John Hutchins; mother's maiden name Andrews; 
educated, Warren public schools, Oberlin College and Albany Law 
School; married, Ravenna, 0., Dec. 28, 1861, Jane M. Campbell; 
issue, five children, two daughters and three cons; 1st lieut. 2nd 
Ohio Cavalry in Civil War; came to Cleveland to live in 1868, and 
from that time on has lived an active professional business and 
official life; member of School Board, 1873; prosecuting attorney, 
1871-1880; Judge of Police Court from 1883 to 1887; member of 
Public Library Board thirteen years, and pres. eight years; 
Common Pleas Judge, 1892 to 1895; Post Master from 1895 to 1899; 
first class member Military Order of Loyal Legion; at different 
times member of the Union and Euclid Clubs. 

HYDE, Edward Pechlor; physicist; born, Baltimore, Md., Jan. 
3, 1879; son of Edward Ingle and Caroline Clemm Hyde; educated, 
public schools, Baltimore City, Md., A. B., Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, 1900; fellow and fellow by courtesy, Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, 1900-1906; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, February, 
1906; married, Baltimore, Md., May 4, 1904, Virginia Getzen- 
denner; one daughter, Dorothy Virginia, born Aug. 25, 1906; 
physicist, director the physical laboratory National Electric Lamp 
Ass'n, 1902 to 1908; laboratory asst. and asst. physicist and asso. 
physicist Bureau of Standards, Washington; while at the Bureau 
of Standards, undertook a foreign trip for purpose of comparing 
the United States unit of light with the official units of Germany, 
England and France; was largely instrumental in bringing about 
national and international agreement on a common unit of light 
(candle power) lor England, France, and the United States; con- 
ceived, and to a large extent organized the epoch-making course of 
lectures on "Illuminating Engineering," given at Johns Hopkins 
University, in October and November, 1910; organized physical 
laboratory National Electric Lamp Ass'n, for study of physical 
pliysirotozical and psychological problems in light and illumin- 
ations; non-resident member Franklin Institute, Fellow A. A. A. S. ; 
member American Psychological Society, American Electrochemi- 
cal Society, Illuminating English Society, (pres. 1910 and chair- 
man Research committee), National Electric Light Ass'n; cor- 
respondent member, London, Eng., Illuminating Society; Ass'n 
member American Institute, Electric Engineers, (member Elec- 
trophysies Com. ; member American Gas. Inst, (chairman Photome- 
tric commission); member Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce; member Union and Mayfield Country Clubs, 
Cleveland, and John Hopkins Club, Baltimore, and John Hop- 
kins Universitv Alumni Ass'n. 



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HYDE, Walker F.; building contractor; born, England, Oct. 12, 
1866; son of Janaes Butler and Elizabeth Love Hyde; educated, 
public schools of England, graduated from Ardingly College, Eng.; 
married, Cleveland, May 3, 1897, Mary B. Markham; issue, four 
children; at the age of eighteen after leaving college assisted his 
father, who was in the general contracting business in England; 
came to America in 1898, and started work as a carpenter; has 
been associated with several large firms as foreman and supt. ; 
organized the firm of W. F. Hyde Co., in 1909; pres. and gen. mgr. 
the firm has had a rapid business growth, handling large contracts 
in the city and other towns. 

HYEE, Alonzo Eugene; sec'y The Cleveland Chamber of In- 
dustry; born, Basil, O., June 1, 1860; son of Henry Clay and Al- 
media Ann Poff Hyre; educated, public schools Cambridge City, 
Ind., Columbus, O., Springfield, O., and Buchtel College, Akron, O., 
degree B. S.; married, Akron, O., April, 1886, Sarah Emma Cad- 
wallader; issue, two sous, Eexford C. and Raymond E.; owned 
and edited a Republican newspaper for twelve years; active in 
Republican politics as delegate to county and state conventions 
and served upon republican executive committees; appointed cash- 
ier of the U. S. Internal Revenue office under McKinley, and served 
five years; was one of the organizers of The Cleveland Chamber of 
Industry and has been the sec'y since it was established; member 
Delta Tau Delta College Fraternity, member a lot of unimportant 
Clubs. Recreation: Moving Pictures. "The Marvel of the Cen- 
turies," established and published the first College Journal at 
Buchtel College; began newspaper work in Cleveland, in 1885; 
owned and published ' ' Vanity Fair ' ' the first publication in 
Cleveland devoted to art, music, drama and society; owned and 
published, for many years, "The Cuyahogian, " a weekly news- 
paper of country circulation. 

IRELAND, Robert L,; with M. A. Hanna & Co.; born, Strat- 
ford, Conn., Aug. 20, 1867; son of John B. and Adelia Duane Ire- 
land; educated, Stamford, Conn., Newburgh, N. Y., and Yale, 
graduating in 1890; married. May 2, 1894, Kate Benedict Hanna; 
issue, Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr., born Feb. 2, 1895, and Eliza- 
beth Ireland, born Oct. 30, 1898; business career, with the Cleve- 
land Hardware Co., Hackney Bicycle Co., Globe Iron Works, Ship 
Owners Dry Dock Co., Cleveland Dry Dock Co.; instrumental in 
the consolidation of the shipbuilding interests of the Great Lakes; 
organization being known as the American Ship Building Co.; was 
vice pres. until 1903; partner in the firm of M. A. Hanna & Co.; 
identified and officially connected with many corporations; member 
advisory board of The Citizens Savings & Trust Co., and the 
Cleveland Trust Co.; member Union, Tavern, Athletic, Hunt, 
Roadside, Gentleman 's Driving, and Mayfield Country Clubs, of 
Cleveland, and University, and Yale Clubs, New York City. 



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JACKSON, Charles Edmund; manufacturer; born, Lowestoft, 
Eug., April 10, 1865; son of Edmund J. and Lucretia Betts Jack- 
son; educated, Lowestoft, Eng., and Cleveland, O. ; married, De- 
troit, Mich., July 19, 1890, Mary M. Cooper; one son, Herbert C. 
Jackson; mgr. E. C. Jackson & Co.; business founded Aug. 20, 
1896; machine and blacksmith shop and a general repair shop for 
all kinds of machinery; Master Mason, Halcyon Lodge, Eoyal 
Arch Mason, Cleveland Chapter, Knight Templar, Holyrood Com- 
raandery, 32nd degree Mason, Lake Erie Consistory, Noble of Mys- 
tic Shrine, Al Koran Temple. Eecreation is an annual vacation. 

JANES, Julius French; pres. and gen'l mgr. Standard Steel Cast- 
ings Co.; born, Erie, Pa., Sept. 24, 1877; son of Herman and Julia 
(Williams) Janes; educated. Brooks Military Academy, University 
School, Phillips Audover Academy, Andover, Mass.; graduated 
from Yale in 1902; married, Nov. 11, 1904, Euth Hawkins; issue, 
one son, Julius French; in sales dept. the Bourne-Fuller Co., three 
years; salesman with Morgan Lithograph Co.; appointed to joint 
management of sales dept. and treasurer in 1908; established 
Standard Steel Castings Co., 1912; member Calvary Presbyterian 
Church, Hermit and Euclid Clubs. Eecreations: Golf, Tennis, 
Fishing and Motoring. 

JEAVONS, A. N.; japaniug and decorating works; in 1875, his 
father, W. A. Jeavons, established a japaning and decorating 
works; in 1878, he joined with his father in the business; together 
they built up a business second to none of its kind in the country; 
in 1891, his father died, he has continued in the business and his 
motto has always been "Prompt Service and Satisfaction in All 
Dealings, ' ' he does auto lamps, bicycle parts, and all kind of 
metal baked enameled and striped in any color. 

JENNINGS, John Gould; treas. The Lamson & Sessions Co.; 
born, Cleveland, Sept. 28, 1856; son of John Giles and Caroline 
Eead Conkling Jennings; educated, Central High School, Cleve- 
land, and Yale University, class of 1878; married, Cle^'eland, Jan. 
2.3, 1884, Lillian M. Lamson; one son, Isaac Lamson Jennings, 
Jan. 14, 1885; bookkeeper Wilcox, Treadway & Co. (now Peck, 
Stow & Wilcox Co.), 1880-1882; bookkeeper Melton Mining Co., 
Grizzly Flat, Cal., 1883; since 1883, treas. The Lamson & Sessions 
Co.; sec'y The Johnston & Jennings Co.; director The Ferry Cap 
and Set Screw Co.; pres. Clifton Club Co.; trustee Cleveland Feder- 
ation for Charity and Philanthropy and Eiverside Cemetery 
Ass'n; pres. Pilgrim Congregational Society; member Union, Clif- 
ton, Lakewood Yacht, Westwood Golf, and Tippecanoe Clubs, 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 

JENSEN, Peter; baker; born Denmark; son of Jens Larsen and 
.Tohanne Anderson Jensen; educated, Denmark public schools, and 
took preliminary examination for University of Copenhagen; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Dec. 20, 1900, Rosina Mae Donald; one child; in 

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1890, came to Cleveland from Copenhagen, Denmark; was occu- 
pied in various ways until five years ago, when he started a 
bakery and confectionary store in the East End; his business grew 
so rapidly that he moved to 2810 W. Madison Ave., for baking 
alone, disposing of his East End location; started a branch at 
15611 Detroit Ave.; maintains a retail delivery in the neighbor- 
hood; belongs to First Church of Christ Science, having been healed 
from a so-called incurable disease in 1895. 

JEROME, Frank J.; lawyer; born, Painesville, O., Nov. 3, 1855; 
son of Joseph and Susan C. Foster Jerome; educated, Painesville 
public schools and Ann Arbor Law School; married, Painesville, 
O., Sept. 10, 1884, Lucy E. Dingley; one son, Frank Jay Jerome; 
admitted to the bar in 1877; practiced in Painesville until 1893, 
most of the time in the firm of Burrows & Jerome; entered the 
law dept. of The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern E. E. Co., at 
Cleveland, June 1, 1893; appointed general attorney for that road 
in 1901 and general counsel in 1912; general counsel L. S. & M. S., 
its leased and operated lines; director Big Four Ey. Co., T. & O. 
Ey. Co., Lake Erie & Pittsburgh Ey. Co., Cleveland Short Line 
Ey. Co., Lake Erie & Eastern Ey. Co.; trustee Lake Erie College, 
Painesville; member Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and Union 
Club. 

JOHNSON, George Baird; professional; born, Erie, Pa., Jan. 
10, 1877; son of James G. and Susan Baird Johnson; educated, Se- 
wickley Academy and Park Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.; married, 
Cleveland, Feb. 10, 1906, Edith Ketchum; issue, two children, John 
Baird and Harriet Ely Johnson; in charge Cleveland ofBce, having 
jurisdiction over Ohio and Kentucky, for William Salmon & Co., 
international bankers, New York; 1895, with general Agency In- 
surance Co. of North America, at Erie, Pa.; 1900, Agency Dept. 
New York Life Insurance Co.; 1905, W. J. Hayes & Son, bankers, 
Cleveland; 1909, William Salmon & Co., bankers; member Union 
Club. 

JOHNSON, Levi A.; real estate and fire insurance; born, Cleve- 
land, Sept. 1, 1873; son of Philander L. and Sarah M. Clarke 
Johnson; educated, Cleveland public schools, Phillips Academy, 
Andover, Mass., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Oct. 24, 1911, Margaret Taylor Dodge; one son, 
Levi Clarke Johnson; sec'y and treas. The Johnson Eealty Co.; 
director The Wood & Spencer Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, 
Cleveland Eeal Estate Board, Delta Psi Fraternity of Yale Uni- 
versity; member Union, and Country Clubs; his grandfather, Levi 
Johnson, came to Cleveland, March 10, 1809; he built the first 
steamboat that sailed from Cleveland, built the first court-house 
and jail in Cuyahoga County, the old government piers at the 
mouth of the river, and a number of light-houses on the lakes; 
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Eockefeller Bldg. now stands; in 1823, he was identified with ship- 
ping on the lakes, and was a large owner of real estate in Cleve- 
land; he died May 18, 1907. 

JOHNSON, Wendell H.; dentist; born. Alliance, O., March 18, 
1875; educated. University of Michigan, D. D. S.; married, Cleve- 
land, Nov. 6, 1901, Bessie Compton; issue, Compton Johnson, 
born April 24, 1906, Elizabeth Ferris, born June 24, 1910; began 
practice, September, 1897; vice pres. Union Oil Co.; member Ohio 
State Dental Society; member Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity; 
member Union, and Country Clubs. 

JOHNSTON, Albert William; railroad office; born, Boston, 
Mass., March 4, 1853; son of Thomas Hunter and Anne Metcalf 
Johnston; educated, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; mar- 
ried, Steubenville, O., Sept. 17, 1880, Flora F. Kimball; one 
daughter, Pauline Kimball Johnston; entered the railroad business 
in 1875; has resided in Cleveland since 1884, as Division Engineer, 
N. Y. C. & St. L. E. E. Co., and has successfully held positions of 
division supt. Eastern Division, general supt. and gen. mgr. entire 
line; member American Society of Civil Engineers, American 
Eotary Association and American Eotary Guild; member College 
Fraternity, Chi Phi Tau, Boston, 1873; member Union Club. Eecre- 
ations: Fishing and Sailing on the Maine Cost in Summer. 

JONES, Frank Z.; plaster contractor; born, Delaware, O., Sept. 
21, 1879; son of Albert and Margaret Common Jones; educated, 
Delaware, O., public schools; married, Windsor Can., Dec. 1, 1903, 
Lillie L. Baker; issue, three sons; learned trade under his father, 
and contracted in Delaware for several years; in 1901, went to 
Dayton, O., and spent three years there as journeyman; worked 
in Toledo one year, and then came to Cleveland, in 1904; worked 
as journeyman until 1912; moved to Lakewood, and built his 
home, and has been in contract business since. 

JONES, Harry Brinton; florist; born, West Chester, Pa., Sept. 13, 
1872; son of William, Jr., and Mary B. Painter Jones; educated. 
West Chester Friends High School and Pierce Business College, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; 1890-1893, apprentice to Eobert Craig & Co., 
Philadelphia; 1894-1898, mgr. The Penroch Floral Co., Wilmington, 
Del.; for four months, floral artist to J. Lewis Lousie, Washington, 
D. C; asst. mgr. the J. M. Gasser Co., from Oct. 9, 1899, to July 
1, 1909; since then sec'y and treas. The Jones & Eussel Co.; mem- 
ber Biglow Lodge, F. A. M., and Eotary Club; member Society of 
Friends; fond of general out-door sports. 

JONES, J. H.; banker; born, Dundee, O., Aug. 20, 1867; son of 
A. C. and Annie Eussell Jones; common and high school education, 
and one year at Ohio Northern University; married, Detroit, 
Mich., 1904, Lottie M. Vemmard Allen; issue, five children; Eepub- 
lican; three years member Public Library Board; never held polit- 



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ical office and does not expect to do so; began work with The 
Iron Valley Bank, at Canal Dover, O., twenty-six years ago; served 
two years as clerk; one year at The Citizens Bank, at Ada, 0., as 
asst. cashier; for nearly twenty-three years, has been with The 
Lake Shore Banking & Trust Co., as clerk; promoted to sec'y, 
then treas. of Company, and treas. and cashier of the St. Clair & 
Superior St. offices; treas. The Vandalia Gas Co., The Merry Land 
Co.; treas. and sec'y Houghton Land & Drainage Co.; treas. Sales 
Corporation Co., and Julier Baking Co.; member Masons, Union, 
and Athletic Clubs. Eecreations: Fishing and Motoring. 

JONES, Paul D.; treas. The Guarantee Title & Trust Co.; born, 
East Bangor, Pa., April 30, 1876; son of William D. and Linda A. 
Weidman Jones; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, 
Cleveland, June 28, 1900, Georgia A. Hauxhurst; one child; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce, and Keswick Golf Club. 

JOYCE, Adrian Dwight; Sherwin-Williams Co., mgr.; born, 
Sumner, la., Nov, 18, 1872; son of M. H. and Anne Hotham Joyce; 
educated. Olivet College and University of Michigan; married, 
Stafford, N. y., June 9, 1879, Anna Page; issue, Marion, born March 
11, 1898, Dwight, born May 31, 1900, Dorothy, born Jan. 27, 1902, 
Phyllis, born July 23, 1909; lived on a farm until he was 17 years 
old; taught country school, after leaving home; also village school 
for three years, unable to finish college course because of poor 
health; went into the wholesale hay and grain business in Mem- 
phis, Mich., in 1898; sold out, and went to work for Swift & Co., 
of Chicago, developing one of their auxiliary departments; on 
Nov. 1, 1902, entered the employ of The Sherwin-Williams Co., as 
traveling salesman in Michigan; in 1904, he left the company and 
became sec'y of the American Wood Eim Co., at Onaway, Mich.; 
after a short time returned to The Sherwin-Williams Co., to become 
mgr. of the large City Sales Department; in 1905, made sales 
mgr. of The Southwestern Division of the Company, with head- 
quarters in Kansas Citj^, Mo.; 1906, made district mgr., having 
charge of branches in Omaha, Kansas City and Dallas; in 1909, 
made asst. gen. mgr. of the Company, with headquarters in Cleve- 
land; 1910, made general mgr., with entire supervision of Distri- 
bution and Sales Departments; vice pres. Detroit White Lead 
Works; vice pres. Detroit Paint & Glass Co.; director Lawrence 
Paint Co.; vice pres. The Sherwin-Williams Co. of Massachusetts; 
vice pres. same Company of Texas; member Union, Country, May- 
field, and Athletic Clubs; fond of motoriiig, Golf and Fishing. 

JUENG-LING, James W.; manufacturing jeweler; born, Prague, 
Bohemia, Oct. 18, 1855; married, Cleveland, Oct. 15, 1879, Louisa 
M. Dietz; one son; came to Cleveland June, 1865; public school 
education; became apprenticed to the jewelers trade in 1869, with 
William Kidd; member Iris Lodge, F. A. M., No. 229, Webb Chap- 



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ter, E. A. M., No. 14, Holyrood Commandery, K. T., No. 32, Cleve- 
land Council, R. & S. M., No. 36, Lake Erie Consistory, A. A. S. R.; 
pres. Globe Machine & Stamping Co. 

KANNER, Gabriel; life insurance; born, Hungary, Oct. 18, 1858; 
son of Alexander and Edith Kanner; married. New York City, 
Nov. 22, 1880, Nettie Price; four children; general agt. of Canada 
Life Association Co.; trustee of Aushe Emeth Congregation, and 
Moses Montiforce Hebrew School; member Hungarian Benevolent 
Society of New York, K. of P., and I. O. B. A. 

KASPER, William C; motion picture theater; born, Cleveland, 
Feb. 14, 1880; son of Christ and Minnie Voss Kasper; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, June 12, 1901, Ida 
C. Rice; issue, William Carl Kasper, Jr., born June 15, 1906, Robert 
Lee Kasper, born Sept. 23, 1909; in business with his father in 
The Merchant Delivery & Storage Co. and treas. of The Eckeman 
Heating & Plumbing Co. for about five years; then opened Fairy- 
laud Moving Picture Theater, on W. 25th St.; member Cleveland 
Chamber of Industry, and Lakewood Tennis Club. Recreations: 
Home and Motoring. 

KAUFMAN, Harry Livingston; iron ore and mining; born, Mar- 
quette, Mich., 1882; son of Samuel Robert and Juliet Gravereat 
Kaufman; educated, Cascasella School, Ithaca, N. Y., and Cornell 
University; when E. N. Breitung & Co. opened their ore sales 
agency in Cleveland, he became as a partner in the business, at 
the time was vice pres. and mgr. of mines in Marquette, Mich.; 
now divides his time, spending the winters in Cleveland and the 
summers in Marquette; honorary member Naval Reserves of 
Michigan; director in the following: First National Bank, Cleve- 
land; First Trust & Savings Co., Cleveland; Negaunee National 
Bank, Negaunee, Mich.; Mines Development Co., Ltd.; Minors 
Negotiation Co., Ltd., Breitung Mineral Security Co., Ltd., Nego- 
tiations Co., Ltd.; Breitung Mineral Guarantee Co., Ltd., all of 
Marquette, Mich.; vice pres. and director Mary Charlotte Mining 
Co.; treas. Breitung Hematite Mining Co., Ltd.; asst. treas. Wash- 
ington Iron, all of Marquette, Mich.; member American Institute 
Mining Engineers, Lake Superior Mining Institute; charter mem- 
ber American Mining Congress, Michigan chapter, American Iron 
and Steel Institute; Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Athletic, 
Traffic, Euclid Golf Club, and Automobile Club; Marquette Club, 
and Town and Country CI b, Marquette, Mich.; member Delta Phi 
Delta Fraternity. 

KELLEY, Hermon A.; lawyer; born, Kelley's Island, O., May 
15, 1859; son of Alfred Stow and Hannah Farr Kelley; degrees of 
A. B., A. M., LL. D., Buchtel College, Harvard Law School, Goet- 
tingen University (Germany); married, Cleveland, Sept. 3, 1889, 
Florence Alice Kendall; issue, Virginia Hutchinson, Alfred Ken- 
dall, Hay ward Kendall; member of law firm of Hoyt, Dustin, 



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Kelley, McKeehan & Andrews; at one time first asst. corporation 
counsel of City of Cleveland; trustee Buchtel College; trustee and 
sec'y and treas. Cleveland Museum of Art; member Union, Coun- 
try, University, Euclid, and Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. 

KELLEY, Samuel Walter; physician, surgeon; born, Adams- 
ville, Muskingum County, O., Sept. 15, 1855; son of Walter and 
Solina Catherine (Kaemmerer) Kelley; preparatory education, pub- 
lic schools, Zanesville, O., and St. Joseph, Mich.; M. D., Western 
Keserve University, Cleveland, 1884: also studied in hospitals in 
London; married Amelia Kemmerlein, of Wooster, O., July 2, 1884; 
chief dept. of diseases of children, Polyclinic, Western Reserve 
University, 1886-1893; prof, diseases of children, Cleveland College 
Physicians and surgeons (Med. Dept. Ohio Wesleyan University), 
since 1893; pediatrist City and St. Luke's hospitals; pediatrist and 
orthopedist St. Clair Hospital; surgeon-in-chief Holy Cross Home 
for Crippled and Invalid Children; sec'y med. staff Cleveland City 
Hospital, 1891-1899, pres. 1899-1902; entered service as civilian 
surgeon Spanish-American War; recommended for "efficiency in 
the field under most trying circumstances"; commander brigade 
surgeon of volunteers, with rank of major, Aug. 17, 1908. Editor: 
Cleveland Medical Gazette, 1885-1901; pres. Ohio State Pediatric 
Society, 1896-1897; chairman section on diseases of children, A. 
M. A., 1900-1901; pres. Association American Teachers of Diseases 
of Children, 1907-1908; member Association Military Surgeons of 
U. S., Ohio State Medical Ass'n, etc.; Republican. Author: About 
Children, 1897; In the Year 1800, 1904; Surgical Diseases of Chil- 
dren, 1909; also numerous original articles, editorials, essays, lec- 
tures, etc. 

KELLEY, Michael J.; contractor; born, Ireland, Sept. 5, 1850; 
son of William and Margaret Clarke Kelly; educated, Cloughans 
National School; married, Cleveland, July 8, 1895; Margaret Cor- 
ley; one daughter; was chairman of the County Democratic Cen- 
tral Committee, in 1908; member The Knights of St. John and 
Catholic Mutual Benevolent Ass'n. 

KELLOGG, Frederick D.; The Ohio Quarries Co.; born, Rock- 
ford, 111., Sept. 3, 1880; son of George F. and Anna M. Doubler 
Kellogg; educated, Grade and High School, Rockford, 111., High 
School, Chicago, and Chicago College of Law; married, Winnebago, 
111., May 16, 1902, Florence M. Clark; one daughter, Virginia; 
seven years banking business in Chicago; moved to Cleveland in 
1909, and became connected with The Ohio Quarries Co.; in 1910, 
was elected sec'y and treas. of the Company; sec'y and asst. treas. 
Lorain & Southern R. R. Co.; pies, and treas. Quarries Equipment 
Co.; member Woodward Lodge, Masons, Oakwood Lodge, Royal 
League, Chicago; member Euclid Club. Recreation: Golf. 



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KELLY, William Eldred; manufacturer; born, Emporium, Pa., 
May 11, 1861; son of Andrew Emmons and Lorinda Lyman Kelly; 
educated, Towanda College, Towanda, Pa.; also ordinary business 
course; married, Cleveland, Aug. 23, 1882, Alice T. Brown; issue, 
Fred Eugene, Myrtle L. and Hattie L. Kelly; pres. and gen. mgr. 
The Kelly Reamer Co.; formerly vice pres. The Kelly Handle-Bar 
Co.; joint proprietor and mgr. The E. A. Hewett Co.; pres. and 
mgr. The W. E. Kelly Mnfg. Co.; pres. and mgr. The Safety 
Handle-Bar Co.; pres. and mgr. The Modern Toy & Novelty Co.; 
master mechanic and supt. of The Clark Cash Register Co., and 
many other manufacturing plants in Cleveland for the past thirty- 
four years; member Masonic order, Biglow Lodge, No. 243, Cham- 
ber of Industry, past treas. and senior warden of St, Mark's 
Episcopal Church; member Superintendent's and Foreman's Club; 
mechanic and patenter of many mechanical and electrical devices, 
Kelly Handle-Bars, etc. 

KENNEDY, Frederick Ingham; coal and vessel business; born, 
Erie, Pa., Nov. 10, 1866; son of Silas E. and Belle Ingham Ken- 
nedy; educated, public schools and Erie Academy; graduated, 
class of 1884; married, Erie, Pa., Sept. 10, 1889, Madeline Ham- 
mond; issue, one daughter, Dorothy, one son, Frederick I., Jr.; 
commenced work with Youghiogheny River Coal Co., Erie, Pa., 
controlled by the late Congressman W. L. Scott, June 2, 1884; 
clerk and afterwards treas. and director of the company; also 
treas. and director Spring Valley Coal Co., controlled by the 
same interests; these companies sold to Pittsburg Coal Co., when 
he went with them as traveling auditor and afterwards as asst. 
to the vice pres., leaving Pittsburg for his present position; agent 
The C. Reiss Coal Co., and The Milwaukee Western Fuel Co.; 
director The North American Steamship Co., and The Wainwright 
Steamship Co.; member Masonic Order, Elks, Athletic Club, and 
The Erie Club, and Sheboygan, Wis., Club. 

KILGOEE, Robert Murray; dist. sales mgr. Jones & Laughlin 
Steel Co.; born, Pittsburg, June 14, 1877; son of Jesse B. and Mary 
Barker Kilgore; educated, public schools and Penn State College 
(B. A.); married, Pittsburg, 1900, Bertha Wallace; issue, two sons 
and three daughters, James, Jesse, Robert, Elizabeth and Ruth; 
with Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. since January, 1898 (no other 
employer) ; appointed mgr. of sales Cleveland district, January, 
1908; member Kappa Sigma, Union, and Mayfield Clubs, Chamber 
of Commerce; Royal Arch Mason. 

KILMER, Melvin Daniel; manufacturer; born. New York State, 
July 29, 1858; son of Augustus and Vianna Earner Kilmer; edu- 
cated, Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; married, 
Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1886, Mary T. Hoag; two sons, Augus- 
tus H. and Melvin D. Jr.; pres. and mgr. The Kilmer Spring Sup- 
port Co.; the company also manufactures wire-forming machines 
and bale ties; co-partner with M. D. Kilmer & Co., and A. H. 



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Kilmer & Son; Mason, Emennal Lodge, Cleveland, Ilighland Chap- 
ter, Newburg, N. Y., Hudson Eiver Commandery, Newburg, N. Y., 
New York Consistory, Mecca Temple, New York City; member 
Masonic Club. 

KING, Herbert Doan; banker; born. East Cleveland, March 12, 
1882; son of Frederick and Emily S. Doan King; educated, Shaw 
High School; married. East Cleveland, Oct. 12, 1908, Lillian A. 
Jenks; two children; treas. The Cleveland Trust Co.; director and 
treas. The H. W. Burton Co.; member The Cleveland Athletic Club. 

KING, Harry Wheelock; pres. King Bridge Co.; born, Cleve- 
land, Oct. 15, 1863; son of Zeuas and Miranda C. Wheelock King; 
educated, public and private schools, Cleveland ; married, Mineral 
Point, Wis., Nov. 21, 1889, Margery Gundry; issue, Margery, Jane, 
Harriett; pres. and director King Bridge Co.; sec 'y and director 
Osborn Building Co.; vice pres. and director Lake Shore Banking 
& Trust Co.; director Cleveland Trust Co.; pres. Stratford Building 
Co.; member Union, Country, Tavern, Hermit, Eoadside, and 
Hunt Clubs; five years a member of the Cleveland Catling Gun 
Battery. 

KING, Warren Phelps; manufacturing business; born, Ithaca, 
N. Y., Sept. 9, 1865; son of Warren Leander and Mary Eliza 
Phelps King; educated, Cornell University, class of 1888; married, 
Buffalo, N. Y., June 2, 1892, Justine McKenna; issue, Warren 
Griffin King, born, July 6, 1893, and Elizabeth Brewster King, born 
March 25, 1899; with The Lehigh Valley Coal Co. for five years; 
New York Car Wheel Works and associated companies, occupy- 
ing various official positions, for eleven years; pres. Liberty Brass 
Foundry, Buffalo, N. Y., for four years; vice pres. and treas. The 
Aluminum Castings Co.; member Society of Automobile Engineers, 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Chi. Psi Fraternity; member 
Union, and Mayfield Clubs, Cleveland, and Buffalo, and Saturn 
Clubs, Buffalo, N. Y. ; his paternal greatgrandfather, Francis King, 
fought through The Eevolutionary War, and settled in the town 
of Ithaca, N. Y. ; at the close of the war; his paternal grandfather, 
Alexander King, born in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1801; he married Eachel 
Casterline; his father, Warren Leander King, was born in Ithaca, 
N. Y., in 1829; his maternal grandfather, Elbridge Gerry Phelps, 
v,-as born near Wethersfield, Conn., about 1805; he married Mary 
Oelialah Knowles; his mother, Mary Eliza Phelps, born in Dela- 
Nvare county, N. Y. State, in 1840. 

KINGSBURY, Edward W.; belting business; born, Newark, 
0., Jan. 15, 1870; son of Wilson Webb and Mary Ellen Little 
Kingsbury; common school and business education at Newark and 
Canton, O.; bookkeeper at Canton for a number of years; commer- 
cial traveler, four years, with The Scandanavia Belting Co., of 
New York; Jan, 1, 1913, assumed management of their Cleveland 
Branch; member Elks Lodge No. 18, and several Commercial 
Traveler's Associations; came to Cleveland in 1904. 



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KIBK, Frank M,; Kirk-Woods Coal Co.; born, Jackson, Ma- 
honing county, O., Nov. 3, 1863; educated in public schools, Mt. 
Union and Meadville Colleges; interested in the Young & Harring- 
ton Coal Co.j until 1895, then in the coal business alone, until 1898, 
when he formed partnership with James H. Woods, under j)resent 
name; pres. and treas. the Kirk-Latty Mnfg. Co.; treas. Hazel 
Kirk Gas Coal Co.; pres. the Ohio Tonopah Mining Co.; vice pres. 
A. B. C. Lead & Zinc Co.; director Mud Lake Lumber Co.; 32nd° 
Mason, K. T., Mystic Shriner, B. P. O. E., No. 18, and K. of P.; 
member Union, Euclid, Clifton Park, and Cleveland Gun Clubs, 
Gentleman's Driving Association, and Duquesne Club, Pittsburg; 
Kushmere Club, St. Clair Flats; Republican. 

KISS, Ernest; steamship agt. and insurance; born, Kassa, Hun- 
gary, Nov. 20, 1875; son of Frank and Eozalia Srehwig Kiss; edu- 
cated. High School, 1893, and University of Budapest, Law De- 
partment; married, Cleveland, June 21, 1909, Valseia Kiss, agt. of 
all Transatlantic Steamship Lines; agt. for Nickel Plate Railroad, 
and fire insurance; member Chamber of Industrv, and Woodmen 
of the World. 

KITTREDGE, Lewis Harris; automobile business; born, Harris- 
ville, N. H., June 18, 1871; son of Samuel Grant and Harriet Louise 
Harris Kittredge; educated, Keene, N. H., High School, New 
Hampshire State College, degree of B. S.; 1896-1897, with New 
York Belting & Packing Co., Passaic, N. J.; 1897 to present time 
with The Peerless Motor Car Co. of Ohio, pres. since 1906, same 
office for the company in New York and New England; director 
The Peerlees Motor Car Co. of Ohio; pres. since 1906, same office 
for the Company in New York and New England; director the 
Peerless Motor Car Co. of Illinois; director The Central Na- 
tional Bank, Cleveland; member executive committee National 
Association of Auto Manufacturers; director automobile com- 
mittee. Chamber of Commerce; director Association Patents 
Co.; vice pres. and administrative council member. National Metal 
Trades Ass'n; chairman fiscal trustee. The Maternity Hospital; 
member finance committee. Associated Charities; member federa- 
tion board The Cleveland Federation for Charity and Philan- 
thropy; member Cleveland Automobile, Union, Euclid, Clifton, 
Mayfield, and Athletic Clubs, and Zeta Epsilon Zeta Fraternity. 

KLEE, John; builder and contractor; born, Germany, 1860; son 
of John and Katherine Bod Klee; educated in Germany; married, 
Canton, O., 1900, Emma Haldeman; four children; worked at car- 
penter trade seven years, and then started contracting, working 
at it for twenty-four years, since 1889; in this time have built 
4 churches and 120 buildings and residences; member Cleveland 
Carpenter's and Contractors Ass'n. Recreations: Prayer-meeting, 
Sunday School and Church. 



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KIjEIN, Henry F.; merchant; born, Cleveland, June 2, 1857; son 
of Talk and Fanny Hays Klein; educated, public schools; married, 
first time, Dec. 26, 1889, Minnie Kronthal, Sandusky; issue, Miriam 
B. Klein, born Sept. 2, 1892; married, second time, Hattie Znch- 
man, St. Paul, Minn.; issue, one son, Eichard H. Klein; succeeded 
the firm of Hays Bros, in 1885, jobbers of men's furnishing goods; 
now the firm of Klein, Lichtendstader & Co.; from 1885 to 1890, 
member of the firm of Klein & Lehman; 1887 to 1890, member of 
the firm of Klein, Marks & Co.; in 1890, formed partnership of 
Klein, Lichtendstader & Co.; pres. Jewish Infant Orphans Home; 
director Mt. Siani Hospital, and Free Loan Ass'n; pres. Ladies' 
Society, Jewish Infant Orphans Home; director Hebrew Eelief 
Ass'n; director Commercial Travelers' Life & Accident Ass'n; 
director Cleveland Commercial Travelers' Hospital Fund; was 
pres. of The Commercial Travelers' Life & Accident Ass'n; in 
1907-1908, chairman Library Board of The Commercial Travelers' 
Life & Accident Ass'n; 1906-1909, former Senior Councelor United 
Commercial Travelers; member Excelsior Club. 

KLEIN, Louis; cigar business; born Austria, Sept. 25, 1871; 
son of Benj. and Augusta Klein; attended public schools in Cleve- 
land; married, Cleveland, Aug. 14, 1894, Fanny G. Gottlieb; issue, 
Ceeile Penrose, and Euth Helen; with Halsey & Montgomery, 
cigar dealers; Excelsior Laundry Co., Cleveland Steam Loundry 
Co., nine years with J. E. Quinn, in the cigar business; in 1907, 
incorporated and pres. the Louis Klein Cigar Co., with nine retail 
stores in the city; also wholesale business; member Elks, H. B. 
S. U., and the Cleveland Independent Aid Ass'n. 

KLINE, Homer J.; Forest City Fair Co.; born, Eockville, Ind., 
Jan. 31, 1861; son of Fernando C. and Emily Baker Kline; edu- 
cated, public schools of Indiana; married; has one son and one 
daughter; early history, clerk in book store; newspaper work; 
city editor St. Joseph Daily News for seven years; managing 
editor Horse Eeview; two years with Chicago Horseman; since 
then, promoting fairs and race meetings; racing sec'y Forest City 
Live Stock & Fair Co.; gen. mgr. Forest City Fair Ass'n; asst. and 
sec'y Trotting Horse Breeders; sec'y Grand Circuit. Favorite 
recreation: Harness Sport. 

KLINE, John Charles; dentist; born, Harrison City, Pa.; April 
3, 1880; son of Philip J. and Kate B. Hines Kline; married, Cleve- 
land, O., June 19, 1902, Jeanett Turner; one son, John Howard 
Kline; partner Kline & Cunningham dental laboratory; member 
Cleveland Dental Society. 

KLINE, Virgil P.; lawyer, born, Conueaut, Nov. 3, 1844; edu- 
cated. Electric Institute, Hiram, O. ; graduated from Williams Col- 
lege, 1886; studied law in Cleveland, and passed examinations in 
1870, and was admitted to the bar; with Albert T. Slade, until his 
death in 1876; member of the firm of Henderson, Kline & ToUes; 



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later Kline, Tolles & Goff; when Mr. Goff became pres. of the 
Cleveland Trust Co., firm was organized as Kline, Tolles & Mor- 
ley; powerful orator; special student of financial and economic 
questions; Democrat; frequent nominee for office; ran ahead of 
party ticket, but majority of Eepublican party caused defeat. 

KLINGMAN, Fred F.; attorney; born, Cleveland, Nov. 29, 1866; 
son of Jacob and Minnie Finn Kling-mau; educated, public schools, 
Cleveland, Grammar and High School; married, Cleveland, June 1, 
1S92, Hattie Jones; one daughter, Nadine Klingman; councilman 
Brooklyn Village and Cleveland; asst. county prosecutor; ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1894; director in the following companies: 
The Pfaffman Egg Noodle, The Victor Tea, The Ohio Enamel, The 
Brookins, The Morreau, The Oscar Kroehle; member the advisory 
board, The United Banking Co.; member the Masonic Order, and 
Chamber of Industry. 

KNAPP, Howard H.; lawyer; born, Garrettsville, O., July 4, 
1886; son of Edmund and Adelia Higby Knapp; educated, Gar- 
rettsville public schools and High School, Cleveland Law School, 
degree of LL. B., honor of "Cum Laude"; not married; after 
admission to the bar, he was associated with E. M. Fisher, in the 
Williamson Bldg., as Fisher & Knapp; in March, 1911, withdrew 
from that partnership to form the present firm of Alden, Knapp 
& Magee, in the B. of L. E. Bldg.; member Sigma Kappa Phi 
(Legal Fraternity), Garrettsville Lodge, F. & A. M., Silver Creek 
Chapter, E. A. M., of Garrettsville, Warren Council, E. & S. M., 
at Warren, Ohio, Crescent Chapter, O. E. S., Garrettsville; worked 
for C. L. Eisenhaur, while attending school in Garrettsville, and 
for The Interstate Drug Co., while studying in Cleveland; all edu- 
cation is result of his own efforts. Pastime: Amateur Photog- 
raphy. 

KNIGHT, Augustus C; lawyer; born, New York, March 24, 
1877; son of Augustus Knight; educated, public schools and St. 
Ignatius College, Cleveland, Cleveland Law School, Baldwin Uni- 
versity, LL. B.; married, Cleveland, June 26, 19C7, Marie Agnes 
Bauer; issue, three daughters, Agnes Marie, Adele Irene, Arline 
Helen; preferred and signed the charges against Fred Kohler, Chief 
of Police, in May, 1910, causing his suspension by Mayor Baehr, 
acquittal by the Civil Service Commission; member Cleveland Bar 
Ass'n, State Bar Ass'n, and Cleveland Law Library Ass'n; mem- 
ber Knights of Columbus, Gilmour Council, Cleveland Humane So- 
ciety, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, The City Club, and The 
Cleveland Eeal Estate Board. 

KNIGHT, Thomas A.; real estate broker; born, Toronto, Can., 
Feb. 24, 1876; son of Stephen W. and Clara Oram Knight; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, 1896, Leora Agnes Squire; two daughters, Edith 
L. and Dorothy M.; newspaper man for years; write "Country 
Estate of the Bluegrass, " "Country Estates of Cleveland Men," 



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"History of The Cleveland Police Department," "The Kentucky 
Horse," etc.; was editor of The Ohio Architect and Builder, and 
for several years has devoted all his time and attention to the 
"Factory" end of real estate; proprietor "The Factory Man"; 
member Business Men's Club. 

KNOX, William; architect; born, Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 20, 
1858; son of Thomas and Margaret Neilson Knox; studied in the 
Free Church Seminary, in Glasgow, special course in architecture 
in Glasgow and Edinburgh; married, Painesville, O., June 21, 1891, 
Miss Agnes Julia Child; issue, three children, Carlos C, Beulah 
G., and M. Neilson; business career, successor to Mr. Aitken, in 
the firm of Moffett & Aitken, in Edinburgh; in 1886, left Scotland 
to travel; applied for and secured position with Burnham & Eoot, 
architects, of Chicago, 111.; later office mgr. for Henry Ives Cobb, 
eminent architect; came to Cleveland in 1893; after a few months, 
formed partnership with J. H. Elliott, under firm name of Knox 
& Elliott; have been the architects for many fine buildings 
throughout the country and in the city, the Eockefeller Bldg., 
Trinity Congregational Church, building for the Brotherhood of 
Locomotive Engineers, Elks' Bldg., as well as numerous factories 
and beautiful residences; member American Ass'n for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, Chamber of Commerce, Euclid, and Eow- 
fant Clubs; interested in scientific research; has the finest collec- 
tion of seaweeds in the country; authority on the subject of mush- 
rooms. 

KOBLITZ, Rudolph C; merchant; born, Austria, May 15, 1863; 
son of Moses and Julis Miller Koblitz; educated in Tabor, Austria, 
and Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Jan. 16, 1888, 
Tillie B. Smitz; one son, born Oct. 21, 1888, after attending school 
for three months, the English language was so hard to master 
in proportion to his advancement, that he became discouraged, and 
left school to learn cigarmaking, when 14 years old, he started in 
business for himself, and later broadened out into other lines; 
vice pres. The Koblitz-Kohn Co., real estate holdings; treas. The 
Euclid-Prospect Investment Co.; receiver The Sanitary Co.; direc- 
tor Jewish Infants' Home. Fond of Motoring. 

KOCH, George D.; furniture business; born, Wurtenberg, Ger- 
many, Dec. 23, 1850; brought to the United States at the age of 
three and one-half years; studied in Cleveland public schools 
until 13 years of age; married, Cleveland, Dec. 1, 1875, Bertha 
Berno; issue, George B., Charles C, Math and Estelle; learned 
finishing and polishing in the furniture store of J. Vincent; in 
1872, when 21 years old, formed partnership with Mr. M. Fleming, 
under the name of Fleming & Koch, cor. Penn. and Lorain Aves.; 
in 1873, opened branch store on Detroit St., under the manage- 
ment of Wm. Toni, who entered as partner; firm name changed 
to Fleming, Koch & Co.; in 1875, firm was dissolved, and he 
bought the interest of Mr. Puis, with Mr. Franz Henke, and the 



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firm became Kock & Henke; in 1892, F. H. Henke retired, and 
his interest was taken by his son, Henry August Henke; in 1910, 
fire destroyed the store, and he withdrew from the firm and located 
his business at 10300 Euclid Ave., with his son, George B, Koch, 
under the name of George D. Koch & Co.; member Elks, Cleveland 
Grays, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry; Christian 
Scientist. 

KOCH, Budolph A.; merchant, church supplies; born, Germany, 
March 19, 1870; son of John and Ann E. Gipperich Koch; edu- 
cated, public schools of Germany and Parochial schools in Ohio; 
married, Youngstown, Aug. 16, 1893, Susanna Kleeh; issue, nine 
children, seven living; started in as dry goods clerk at $2 per 
week; after five years work and advancement, became traveling 
salesman in church supplies; in 1894, purchased his present busi- 
ness, developing same and adding department of Society goods, 
especially embroidered flags and banners; the firm is incorporated 
as The E. A. Koch Co., and is the largest of its kind in northern -• 
Ohio; pres. and mgr. The B. A. Koch Co.; member Knights of 
Columbus, C. M. B. A.; C. K. of O., Catholic Federation, Chaiuber 
of Commerce, and Civic League of Cleveland; active in charities; 
Base-ball Fan; collector of rare books and student:' of Social 
Economies. 

KOEHL, William; architect; born, Akron, O., Aug. 22, 1883]^ 
educated. Parochial School, Akron, O., University of Ottawa, Ot- 
tawa, Can., St. Charles College, Elliott City, Md.; married, Cleve- 
land, June 23, 1909, Alma Keidel; two sons, William J. and Thomas 
F.; received early training in architecture in prominent offices in 
Akron and Cleveland; for six years previous to entering partner- 
ship with A. C, Wolf, was associated with Frank B. Meade; en- 
tered into partnership with A. C. Wolf in 1911, remaining until 
1913, when he established his own offices in the Park Building. 

KOHN, Adolph; scrap metal; born, Austria, Sept. 1, 1860; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, June 16, 1882, Eose Koblotz; in scrap metal busi- 
ness twenty-eight years, with the following companies: E. C. 
Koblitz & Co., Stone-Koblitz Co.; Pollock-Kohn Co., Koblitz & 
Kohn; Koblitz, Kohn & Co., the Koblitz-Kohn Co.; pres. of the 
latter company and pres. of the Euclid Prospect Investment Co. 

KOHN, Jacob B.; scrap metal; born, Cleveland, May 24, 1884; 
son of Adolph and Eose Koblitz Kohn; educated in Cleveland 
schools; from 1899 to 1906, traveled for the Koblitz-Kohn Co., 
scrap metal; taken into the company, 1906; 1912, sec'y and treas.; 
director Euclid Prospect Investment Co.; member Chamber of 
Commerce, B. P. O. E., B'ene B'rith. 

KONIGSLOW, Otto; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, April 16. 
1860; son of Herman and Charlotte Brunua Konigslow; studied 
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studied in Hamburg, until 14; attended technical school and served 
apprenticeship in machine shop; married, Cleveland, Jan. 11, 1879, 
Lena Kalliker; issue, four children; business career, Lake Shore 
Shops, White Sewing Machine Co., asst. in Experimental Dept. 
later became a designer; three years chief inspector; organized the 
Otto Konigslow Machinery Co.; incorporated in 1894, as the Otto 
Konigslow Manufacturing Co.; pres. of the Company; special at- 
tention given to making automobile parts; an expert on sheet 
metal; has taken out over twenty-five patents during business 
career; Eepublican; member Presbyterian Church, and Cleveland 
Gesang Verein. 

KOONS, Louis Albert, Jr.; florist; born, Massillon, O., Oct. 16, 
1881; son of L. A. and Caroline Morgan Koons; educated, Mas- 
sillon public schools and graduate of High School; attended Kenyon 
College one year; asst. postmaster at Massillon in 1907; formerly 
asst. sec'y Cleveland Auto Club; florist and decorator, with The 
Smith & Fetters Co.; sec'y of Company; member Episcopal Church, 
Massillon Social Club, Lakeside Country Club, and Cleveland Auto- 
mobile Clubs. 

KORNMAN, William; prop, cafe; born, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 
21, 1866; son of Peter and Marguerite Frank Kornman; educated, 
public schools, Pittsburgh, Pa.; married, Cleveland, 1907, Jennie 
Pendergrast; one son, William H. Kornman, Jr.; member National 
Order of Eagles and Knights of Pythias. 

EEAUS, Emil F.; insurance; born, Milwaukee, Wis., April 22, 
1877; son of Michael and Margaret Casper Kraus; educated, public 
and high schools, Milwaukee, Wis.; married, Milwaukee, Wis., June 
29, 1904, Clara L. Steiner; in June, 1892, began as office boy for 
The Northwestern National Insurance Co., at Milwaukee, Wis.; 
transferred to Minneapolis, in July, 1907, as special agt. for Min- 
nesota, North and South Dakota; appointed mgr. of Cleveland 
Branch, Deccember, 1908; member Athletic Club. 

KRAUSE, Frank S.; real estate dealer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 1, 
1862; son of Conrad B. and Mary Boyes Krause; educated, Cleve- 
land Grammar School; married, Cleveland, Nov. 21, 1890, Anna 
Schurr; two daughters, Gladys and Myrtle; at age of 16, whole- 
sale grocery and Biglow Commercial Line to 1898; joined The New 
York Life Agency force, gen. agt. 3 years; left them after five 
years, becoming gen. mgr. for Fidelity Mutual of Philadelphia; 
in 1905, took up real estate business; pres. The Frank & Krause 
Co.; also The Valley Kealty and The Arter Auto Body Co., The 
General Underwriting Co., and The Low Cost of Living Co.; 
member Ohio Tax League; one of the original members of the 
Cleveland Art Club; member Advisory Committee, Associated Char- 
ities; active in politics since 1880, when Garfield was elected 
President; a Democrat in belief; favor Non-Partisan Home Rule 
and Public Ownership; pres. of the 30-cent Egg Club, believing it 



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a crime to gamble in food stuffs; member Cleveland Lodge of 
Elks, B. P. O. E. No. 18 (for 25 years); Baseball fan since the 
time of the Forest City Club; member Men's Club, East End Bap- 
tist Church; active in handling boys of the Juvenile Court and 
State Keformities. 

KUECHLE, Adam William; treasurer; born, Sandusky, Aug. 3, 
1873; son of Adam and Otilda Kilcher Kuechle; educated, public 
schools and business college; married, Cleveland, Oct. 19, 1904, 
Mable Eose Miller; issue, Katherine Mabel and Helen Louise 
Kuechle; started, in 1893, as private sec'y to L. E. and Albert F. 
Holden; sec'y Cleveland Sarnia Saw Mill Co., Ltd., of Sarnia, 
Ont.; director and treas. The Hollenden Hotel Co.; director, sec'y 
and treas. Hub Transfer & Storage Co.; director Goodhold Farms 
Co.; member Halcyon Lodge, F. & A. M., McKinley Chapter, Forest 
City Commandery, K. T., Al Koran Temple., N. M. S. Favorite 
recreation: Fishing. 

KUEHN, William J.; mfr.; born Cleveland, Jan. 4, 1880; son 
of John and Elizabeth Jacoby Kuehn; educated, Cleveland High 
School and Business College; married, Cleveland, Sept. 28, 1910, Lulu 
Beck; started with Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle, 1898; with The 
Cleveland Eefining Co. and The Republic Oil Co.; in 1907 with 
The Stevens Grease and Oil Co.; has been in the oil and grease 
business all his life; sec'y and director The Stevens Oil & Grease 
Co.; member Sons of Veterans, Cleveland Athletic, and Rotary 
Clubs. 

KUEHNLE, Carl Fred; milk dealer; born, Cleveland, Jan. 28, 
1886; son of Carl and Caroline Keyerleber Kuehnle; attended 
Grammar school, and one year at Central Institute; never had 
any trouble with The Board of Health over impure milk, and 
does not accept uncleaned bottles, and believes in Pasteurized milk; 
member Loyal Order of Moose, Sivabian Singing Society; member 
Amity Club of Cleveland. Recreations : Bowling, Wrestling and 
Boxing. 

KUENHOLD, Otto J.; heating business; born, Cleveland, Dec. 
9, 1879; son of August and Katherine Greeve Kuenhold; educated, 
public schools, Y. M. C. A. night schools and correspondence schools, 
in mechanical drawing; married, Cleveland, March 6, 1906, Miss 
Rosine A. Kaercher; issue, two sons. Jack and Robert; began work 
in machine shops, foundries and pattern shops; at the age of 22, 
entered the draughting rooms of the MacBeth Iron Co.; became 
designing draughtsman; later went with The National Cash Reg- 
ister Co., -as chief draughtsman of Invention Department; after 
several years, came to The Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co.; as de- 
signing and estimating engineer; in 1906, began designing gas- 
heating furnaces and boilers, and incorporated The Scientific 
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Society of Heating Engineers; inventor of numerous improve- 
ments in gas-heating apparatus, coal and ore-handling machinery, 
cash register and adding machine devices. Eecreations: Music, 
Art, Literature and Working on Inventions. 

KUNDTZ, Theodore; manufacturer; born, Unter-Metzeuseifen, 
Hungary, July 1, 1852; son of Joseph and Theresia (Kesselbauer) 
Kundtz; public school education; married, Cleveland, 1884, Marie 
Ballash; five sons, four daughters; mfg. of church, school and sew- 
ing-machine furniture, automobile wheels and bodies, and furni- 
ture hardware, beginning from the log, employing about 2200 
people; inventor of several processes in aid of manufacture; 
knighted by Emperor Francis Joseph I., with the Franz- Josef 's 
Order, 1903; director United Savings & Trust Co., and Forest City 
Savings and Trust Co.; member of several benevolent and mutual 
societies. Favorite recreation: Automobiling. 

KUNZE, Paul; florist; born, Germany, March 29, 1866; son of 
Samuel and Czernonwski Kunze; educated, Government schools, 
Germany; married, Cleveland, Jan. 28, 1893, Ellen Schultz; one 
child; served three years in German Army; with City Water 
Works, Cleveland, 1889 to 1890; eighteen months with Empire 
Plant Co.; 1892, started the florist business; pres. and treas. of 
the firm; decorator and designer; member Odd Fellow, No. 295, 
Cleveland Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 135, American Insur- 
ance Union, No. 50, Cleveland W. O. W., American Camp; memljer 
Florist Clubs. Eecreation: Hunting. 

LANG, diaries E. J.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, July 14, 
1858; son of Joseph and Caroline Greimer Lang; educated, public 
schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 1883, Katherine E. Schwin- 
zer; one son, Elmer J. Lang, born April 28, 1884; started with 
Charles Eauch, Jan. 8, 1878, in the carriage and wagon business, 
taking full charge of the office work and later full supervision of 
the building of high-grade carriages; in 1885, purchased one- 
quarter interest in the firm, Eauch & Lang, until 1888, then or- 
ganized as stock company, capital, $100,000, in 1906, began the 
building of electric carriages, discontinuing the building of horse- 
drawn vehicles, and devoting all the time to building electric 
vehicles; vice pres. and treas. The Eauch & Lang Carriage Co.; 
pres. The Lakewood Eealty Co.; director The Universal Life In- 
surance Co.; member Knight Templar, Masonic Order, Shriner, 
Blue Lodge, Halcyon, Thatcher Chapter; member Clifton, and 
Athletic Clubs; was sec'y and treas. of The Eauch & Lang Co. 
for twenty-five years. 

LANG, Elmer Joseph; automobiles; born, Cleveland, April 28, 
1884; son oi Chas. E. J. and Katherine Schwetzer Lang; educated, 
public. University and West High schools; married, Parma, 0., 
Sept. 5, 1906, May E. Dixon; issue, Karl, born Aug. 3, 1907, 
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Lang Carriage Co.; in 1905, took charge of Repair and Selling 
Department; director Ranch & Lang Carriage Co.; sec'y Lake- 
wood Land Co.; member Electric Vehicle Mnfrs Ass'n; member 
Halcj^on Lodge, Thatcher Chapter, Forest City Commandery, Al 
Koran Chapter; member Athletic Club, Automobile, and Rotary 
Clubs, and Dorean Literary and Debating Society. Recreations: 
Bowling, Hunting, Pishing and Athletics of all kinds. 

LANG, George C; furniture and undertaking business; born, 
Dunkirk, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1870; son of John A. and Theresa Fischer 
Lang; married Emma M. Stocker of Cleveland; lived on a farm 
until 21 years old; two years at the German-Wallace College; at 
23, entered the coal and stone business, at Chicago Junction, O.; 
two years at Dunkirk, IST. Y., in the ice and coal business; in 1897, 
went into the furniture and undertaking business in Cleveland, 
at Lorain Ave. and W. 95th St.; supt. of the German M. E. Sun- 
day-school; trustee of The German-Wallace College; member of 
the Independent Order of Foresters, and K. of P. 

LANGDON, Charles T.; mgr. Merchants Toilet Supply Co.; 
born in England, Oct. 4, 1871; son of W. M. and Anna Gray Lang- 
don; educated in Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, 
Feb. 21, 1896; two children, Charles W., Frank J.; stock broker- 
age, 1884; one year in cigar business; twelve years with the 
Merchants Toilet Supplj^ Co.; member National Union, Loyal 
Order of Moose. 

LAPP, Charles W.; sign contractor; born, Cleveland, Aug. 29, 
1S66; son of Henry and Mary Lapp; public and high school edu- 
cation; married, Cleveland, Jan. 8, 1893, Minnie Beuger; three 
children; Cleveland City Council, 1898-1901; director of fire 1901- 
]903; pres. City Council 1903-1910 and 1912-1913; United States 
marshal 1913 — ; Mason. 

LATIMER, Jay E.; capitalist; born, Cleveland, Dec. 31, 1864; 
son 01 James and Mary A. Latimer; (College of Hard Knocks); 
married, Cleveland, June 12, 1889, Jennie C. Zeidner; three chil- 
dren; business career, promoted Electric Railway, built Cleveland, 
Chagrin Falls, Columbus, Delaware & Marion R. R., Cleveland, 
Painesville & Ashtabula R. R., Buffalo Dunkirk & Western R. R., 
and The Fireproof Storage Buildings; pres. The Fireproof Ware- 
house Co., The United Light & Power Co., and The Ontario Street 
Land Co.; member Athletic, Willowick, and Cleveland Driving 
Clubs. 

LATTY, Samuel D.; sec'y and gen. mgr. The Kirk-Latty Mnfg. 
Co.; born, Boston, Mass., Sept. 12, 1864; educated in the public 
schools; began career in the tack business with A. Fields & Son, 
Taunton, Mass., 1881-1883; Tack Dept., Cincinnati, O., 1883-1885; 
came to Cleveland and worked for the W. Bingham Co., 1885- 
1887; took charge of the Sales Dept. of the National Screw & Tack 

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Co., 1887-1895; one of the organizers of the Kirk-Latty Mnfg. Co., 
and when the Company was incorporated, was elected sec'y and 
gen. mgr.; still serving; pres. the Buckeye Box Co., and interested 
in other corporations; member Chamber of Commerce, Century, 
Euclid, and Bedford Glens Country Clubs; Eepublican. 

IjAUB, Jacob; master baker; born, Germany, May 16, 1861; son 
of Henry and Margaretha Eek Laub; educated, public schools; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Feb. 28, 1889, Catherine Schrister; three children; 
for past twenty years considered the most practical and scientific 
baker in Cleveland; started at 4832 Lorain St. with an output of 
200 loaves of bread a day; after fifteen months, fire destroyed the 
small bakery; the place was rebuilt at once, and on the opposite 
corner of the street a modern plant was put up, the first of its 
kind on the West Side; the firm soon became well-known for the 
high standard of its output, "The Staff of Life," Laub's genuine 
rye bread, daily output now 20,000 loaves; member The Commer- 
cial Travelers of Cleveland, Cleveland Chamber of Industry, 
Cleveland Ketail Grocers' Ass'n, The National Ass'n of Master 
Bakers. 

LAUGHLIN, Charles F.; real estate investments; born, Hink- 
ley, O., May 18, 3874; son of Frederick and Esther Laughlin; 
educated in public schools of Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 
June 16, 1897, Grace A. Mclntyre; 1888 to 1900, with The Cowell 
& Hubbard Co.; 1901-1904, asst. sec'y and treas. The Prudential 
Trust Co.; 1904-1909, treas. The Guarantee Title & Trust Co.; 
1909, organized The Security Mortgage & Investment Co.; at 
present vice pres. of this corporation; in this capacity represent 
large Eastern insurance companies and large investors in real 
estate mortgages; pres. Cleveland Eeal Estate Board, 1912; now 
pres. of Ohio Association of Eeal Estate Exchanges; pres. Tulip 
Ave. Eealty Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Hermit, and 
Athletic Clubs. 

LAWRENCE, Frank Duran; official National Carbon Co.; born, 
Cleveland, Dec. 1, 1864; son of Orin C. and Jane Donald Lawrence; 
educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Oct. 16, 
1888, Florence F. Prince; children, Herbert P., Lawrence, Eay- 
mond E., Euth A., and Frank D. Jr.; engaged in the oil business 
for a time; 1892, entered the employ of The National Carbon Co.; 
traffic mgr. until 1903, then appointed auditor; in 1912, made asst. 
treas., auditor, and asst. treas. National Carbon Co.; director 
Cleveland Chamber of Industry; member Chamber of Industry, 
Chamber of Commerce, and Athletic Club. 

LAWRENCE, M. Lyman; vice pres. Ohio Farm Development 
Co.; born, Cleveland, Dec. 23, 1868; public and high school educa- 
tion; married, Aug. 3, 1891, Olive M. Harp, of Denver, Col.; at 
the age of 16, went to Colorado; cowboy on the western plains 
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Bank, Denver, and worked up from messenger to cashier; in 1893, 
returned to Cleveland and connected himself with the Ohio Farmer, 
owned by his father; had active part in its management; became 
vice pres. Lawrence Publishing Co.; vice pres. Lawrence- Williams 
Co.; Mason, since 1892; charter member of Brenton N. Babcock 
Lodge; member Cleveland Lodge of Elks; member Auto, Cleveland 
Yacht and Athletic Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce. 

LAWS, Albert W.; mason contractor; born, Germany, Aug. 19, 
1869; son of Auton and Anna Dreier Laws; educated, Liebenthal, 
Germany, and St. Mary's School, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 
July 2, 1892, Henrietta Frederick; issue, two children, 

LEAVENWORTH, Edwin John; lithographer and stationer; 
born, St. Catherines, Can., March 27, 1859; son of E. S. and 
Cindrella Leavenworth; educated, St. Catherines High School and 
Collegiate Institute; married, Soln, O., Aug. 24, 1881, Elizabeth 
M. Harper; issue, Fred H., Edwin H., Ethel M., and Grace E., at 
the age of 20, engaged in the printing and publishing business; 
was editor and publisher of the St. Catherines Daily and Weekly 
News; issued Sunday-school papers, church weeklies, and Govern- 
ment periodicals, and conducted a book and stationery store; came 
to Cleveland in 1888, forming business partnership with Short & 
Forman, now The Forman-Bassett Co.; when in Canada, was iden- 
tified with the Eeform party; personally and through his news- 
papers took an active part in politics; Eepublican for twenty-five 
years; served one term on "The Committee of Fifteen"; was 
never a candidate for any office; sec'y The Forman-Bassett Co.; 
member Masonic Order, and the Chamber of Commerce; a grand- 
son of Hiram Leavenworth, who went to Canada in 1826, to con- 
duct the Government printing office; he was connected with Wil- 
liam Hamilton Merritt and Sir William McKenzie, through whose 
united efforts The Welland Canal was constructed; the Leaven- 
worth family have been prominent in the military, political and 
educational history of the Eastern and Middle States for 200 years. 

LEE, William Granville; labor leader; born, La Prairie, 111., 
Nov. 29, 1859; son of James W. and Sylvista Jane (Tracy) Lee; 
educated, public schools; married, Mary E. Eice, of Chicago, Oct. 
15, 1901; brakeman and conductor, A. T. & S. F., Wabash, Mo. P., 
and U. P. railways, 1879-1884; deputy recorder deeds. Ford County, 
Kansas, 1884-1888; conductor, U. P. E. E., 1889-1895; 1st vice pres. 
1895-1909, pres., Jan. 1, 1909; Brotherhood of Eailway Trainmen; 
Eepublican; Mason. 

LENIHAN, Ernest P.; underwriter; born, Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 
5, 1873; academic education; married; resident director Wilcox, 
Peck & Hughes, New York, prior to coming to Cleveland in 1901 
engaged in marine insurance business in New York and Chicago; 
director in the following companies: New York Fire & Marine 
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towor Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., The Wilbrand Co., Wilcox, 
Peck & Hughes; Independent politically; member The Association 
of Average Adjusters of the United States, Chamber of Commerce; 
member Union, Country, and Mayfield Clubs. Fond of Gulf. 

LEONARD, Rt. Rev. William Andrew, D. D.; Bishop of Ohio; 
born, Southport, Conn., July 15, 1848; educated. Philips Academy, 
Andover, Mass., St. Stephen 's College, Annadale, N. Y., and Berk- 
ley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn.; ordained May 31, 1871, 
degrees of D. D. from St. Stephen's College, and Washington and 
Lee University, Virginia; Eector the Church of the Eedeemer, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1872-1880; St. John's Parish, Washington, D. C, 
1880-1889; consecrated Bishop of Ohio, Oct. 12, 1889; in charge of 
the American Episcopal churches on the continent of Europe, 
1897-1906; one of the founders of the University Club; Chaplain 
Ohio Society of New York; pres. Board of Trustees of Kenyon 
College; trustee University school; member General Board of Civic 
Federation of Cleveland, and the Society of Sons of Colonial Wars. 

LEUTY, Demaline; banker; born, Mayfield, O., Nov. 9, 1835; 
son of Isaac and Mary Demaline Leuty; public school education; 
married, Lynn, Mass., January, 1868, Sarah Frances Vennard; Mrs. 
Leuty died March 7, 1901; their only child died in infancy; early 
life spent in his father's general store and in the lumber business; 
in 1883, embarked in the banking business, first known as The Sav- 
ings & Trust Co., later consolidated with the Citizens Savings & 
Trust Co.; elected vice pres., also director and member of the 
finance committee, of the executive board; interested in a number 
of corporations and stock holder in several National banks and 
trust companies of the city; Republican, member St. Paul's Epis- 
copal Church; attained Knight Templar degree in Masonry, and 
a Noble of the Mystic Shrine; member Chamber of Commerce, 
Union, and Roadside Clubs. 

LEWANDOWSKI, S.; steamship, foreign exchange, etc.; born, 
Poland, Nov. 16, 1864; son of Joseph and Miss Koszucka Lewan- 
dowski; educated, public schools. Bay City, Mich.; married, Posen, 
Nebr., Aug. 16, 1885, Anna Kahinowska; issue, three sons and five 
daughters; for over twenty-one years an employee of the United 
States Government in the Cleveland post office; handling all cash 
postage for second class and permit matter, under the title of supt. 
of second class matter; in 1901, opened, on Sowinski Ave., Cleve- 
land, an office, doing a steamship, foreign exchange and real estate 
business; one of the organizers and founders of the first Polish 
paper in Cleveland, Poloniaow Ameryce, still in existence; mem- 
ber Polish National Alliance of America; served one term as its 
Supreme vice pres. (vice censor); organizer of the Alliance of 
Poles in the state of Ohio; in 1891, organized the Polish St. Casi- 
mir Parish, and the Polish Settlement in the East End; greatly 
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LBWIN, John F.; mason contractor; born, Isle of Man, Sept. 5, 
1875; son of John and Jane Bridsou Lewin; educated, Kirk Patrick, 
Isle of Man; married, Kirk Braddon, March 20, 1901, Netta Quirk; 
issue, three children. 

LEWIS, Robert Ellsworth; gen. sec'y Y. M. C. A.; born, Berk- 
shire, Vt., Sept. 28, 1869; son of C. P. V. and Ellen E. Haynes 
Lewis; University of Vermont, class of 1892, degrees Ph. D., M. A., 
L. H. D.; married, Brookline, Mass., Aug. 24, 1893, Grace Mason 
Brackett (Wellesley, 1890); issue, five sons, three daughters; cap- 
tain and aide staff Brig. Gen. J. J. Estey, Vermont National Guard, 
1892-1894; expedition relief Peking, China, 1900, attached to 14th 
infantry staff until after capture of Peking; began career as col- 
lege Y. M. C. A. sec'y in Massachusetts and Ehode Island; national 
traveling sec'y S. V. M. F. M.; sec'y International Committee, Y. 
M. C. A., in China 1898-1907; state sec'y, Ohio, 1908; gen, sec'y, 
Cleveland, 1909 — ; built largest Y. M. C. A. in Asia; built Martyrs' 
Memorial Hall, in national memory of Boxer massacres from 1910- 
1913, Cleveland Y. M. C. A. rehoused in three new buildings at 
cost of $1,090,000; director Institute and Training School, Chicago; 
member corp. International College, Springfield, Mass.; chairman 
General Committee on Vocational Guidance; member Eoyal Asiatic 
Society, Am. Ass'n of China, National Geographic Society, Am. 
Ass'n of Labor Legislation, Chamber of Commerce, Phi Delta 
Theta, University, and City Clubs. Author: Educational Conquest 
of the Far East; Government Education in Japan, published by 
U. S. Government and translated and published in Chinese by Chi- 
nese government; articles in North American Eeview, Forum, Out- 
look, Independent, Harper's Weekly, Congregationalist. 

LEWIS, Walter Irviiig; business maps and real estate; born, 
Chicago, Oct. 23, 1878; son of Wallace F. and Ella C. Slosson 
Lewis; educated, public and high schools. Armour Institute of 
Technology, Chicago, B. S. M. E., 1901; married, Cleveland, Feb. 
18, 1897, Marion D. Eaymond; sales mgr. Eand Drill Co., New 
York, 1901-1902; sales mgr. Cleveland Chocolate & Cocoa Co., 1902- 
1906; advertising mgr. The Eaymond Co., 1908-1910; pres. and 
treas. City Improvement Co.; sec'y Sincere Eealty Co.; sec'y and 
treas. The Eaymond Co.; director The Euclid Point Co.; member 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and Eeal Estate Board, Athletic 
Club. 

LIEBENTHAL, Melville; merchant; born, Cleveland, O.; son of 
Emanuel and Cordelia (Strauss) Liebenthal; educated, Cleveland 
public schools; married, Cleveland, Minnette Sanger; issue, two 
children; member firm of Liebenthal Brothers; member Excelsior 
Club. 

LIEBENTHAL, Sylvester; wholesale liquors; born, Cleveland, 
Nov. 13, 1873; son of Emanuel and CorJelia (Strauss) Lieben- 
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Oct. 14, 1907, Maud Sloss; one son, born Oct. 17, 1911; worked for 
Wm. Edwards Co. for ten years; started in business in 1899; 
manager Liebenthal Bros. Co.; member Elks, Chamber of Com- 
merce, Municipal Ass'n, and Excelsior Club. Fond of Equestrian 
exercises. 

LIEOHTI, John Paul; accountant; born, Aaram, Switzerland, 
April 19, 1864; son of Leo and Carolyn Strebel Liechti; educated, 
Aaram, Switzerland, graded high school and preparatory college or 
university school; made rapid progress in studies and graduated at 
fourteen and a half years of age, from second year University 
school; married, Wheeling, W, Va., Jan. 15, 1885, Julia M. Hullien; 
issue, one son and four daughters; mgr, W. H. Price, Superior 
Bldg.; member Knights of Columbus, Gilmour Council; taught self 
the art of engraving and knowledge of three modern languages. 

LIEGHLEY, Per Lee Alvin; lawyer; born, Navarre, O., March 
9, 1872; son of Frank B. and Barbara E. Lonas Lieghley; educated, 
district school, Marshalls Business College, Delaware, O.; special 
course of study in Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., law 
course in Cincinnati Law School, and Kent College of Law, Chi- 
cago, 111., graduating from there in 1896, LL. B.; married, Marys- 
ville, O., Jan. 17, 1895, Clara Marie Alexander; issue, two chil- 
dren, Helen and Phyllis; practiced law in Chicago for three 
years; health failed, returned to Ohio, and accepted principalship 
of the Strasburg, O., schools for three years, doing some law prac- 
tice and serving as Justice of the Peace; came to Cleveland in 
1902, and entered practice; in 1905, solicitor of South Brooklyn 
and until the village was annexed to the city; a Democrat, but 
elected to the position by a Eepublican council; 1906, appointed 
1st asst. county prosecutor; served until 1909; resumed private 
practice; member National Union, Owls, Masons, the Knights of 
Pythias, and Beta Theta Pi College Fraternity. 

LINIiEY, Arthur; electric business; born, Sheffield, Eng., Oct. 2, 
1872; son of Perry and Eliza A. Linley; educated at Montgomery 
College, England; married, Cleveland, Nov. 20, 1897, Minnie V. 
Gaul; two children; started out to be a chemist, but drifted into 
the electrical business when 21 years old; has got out a number 
of electric patents; mgr. The Linley Electric Co.; member "Sons 
of Jove," and Cleveland Cricket Club. 

LITTLE, Bascom; contractor; born, Cleveland, April 24, 1879; 
son of Hiram H. and Laura Brown Little; educated. University 
School, Cleveland, Cornell University, A. B., 1901; married, Cleve- 
land, June 2, 1906, Florence Cobb; issue, Bascom Little, Jr., Julia 
Little; member first Charter Commission; director of following: 
Citizens Savings & Trust Co., Union National Bank, Guarantee 
Title & Trust Co., The Crowell & Sherman Co., The Crowell-Sher- 
man-Statler Co., Baker Motor Vehicle Co.; member American His- 



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torical Society; trustee Associated Charities and Hiram House; 
member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Mayfield, Union, University, 
Country, and Tavern Clubs. 

LITZLER, Louis I.; attorney; born, Cleveland, Nov. 17, 1873; 
son of John and Caroline Marsal Litzler; educated, St. Mary's 
Catholic Parochial school; St. Ignatius College and The Cleveland 
Law School; LL. B., Cleveland Law School of Baldwin University; 
married, Cleveland, June 5, 1895, Albertine Fischer; issue, five 
children, Louis, Jr., Kose, Agnes, Cyril, and Genevieve; member 
Cleveland Charter Commission; director The Glick Clothing Co.; 
sec'y and treas. The Model Home Building Co.; pres. The Litzler 
Eealty Co.; member Cuyahoga County Bar Ass'n; Cleveland Eeal 
Estate Board; charter member City Club, and Forest City Council, 
Knights of Columbus; member St. Mary's Church, and the follow- 
ing Catholic organizations: Mutual Benefit Ass'n, Knights of 
Ohio, St. Ignatius College Alumni Ass'n, International Catholic 
Truth Society, St. Joseph's Society of St. Mary's Church, Y. M. S. 
of same church. District League of German Catholic Societies, Al- 
sace-Lorraine Aid Society, Deutsche Eiheit; member the Cleve- 
land Fire Insurance Exchange, and the Insurance Society of Cleve- 
land. 

LIVINGSTON, David S.; florist; born, Scotland, Aug. 9, 1868; 
son of John and Marguerite Shanks Livingston; common school 
education; married, Cleveland, Jan. 18, 1891, Mrs. Hattie Van 
Gastel; four children. 

LOCHER, Cyrus; lawyer; born, Bluffton, O., Mar. 8, 1878; son 
of Christian and Fanny Lugabihl Locher; educated, Pandora High 
School, Ohio Wesleyan University, A. B. and A. M.; Western Re- 
serve University Law School, LL. B.; married, Bloomington, HI., 
Beulah L. Baker; supt. of schools, Woodsfield, O., 1903-1905; asst. 
city solicitor, Cleveland, 1908-1909; member law firm Gott & Locher, 
1910-1913; member Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, and Sigma 
Delta Rho (honorary fraternity); member Cleveland Athletic Club 
and Chamber of Commerce; County Prosecuting Attorney from 
Jan. 6, 1913. 

LOEFFELBEIN, Gustav A.; florist; born, Germany, Jan. 3, 1845; 
son of August and Augusta Kewinski Loeffelbein; educated in the 
Government schools of Germany; married, Germany, March 6, 
1870, Fransika Liebensiki; issue, six children, but one, a son; 
living; landscape gardener, Townsend & Fleming, Buffalo, 1857; 
started with Carl Smith, with him till 1860, twelve years with 
Linthope Tenny; came to Cleveland, and went to work for Mar- 
tinetz; then for Theo. Shear; started business in Glenville, then 
in E. 49th St.; present location since 1886; designer and decorator; 
member Presbyterian Church; member Florist, Lasalle, Union. 



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LORENTZ, George A.; }iUimber; born, Cassel, Germany, March 
15, 1877; son of William and Marget Steiner Lorentz; educated at 
public, high and technical schools; married, Scranton, Pa., Nov. 1, 
1898, Helen Schmidt; one son, George William, age 14 years; 
plumbing contractor since 1905; member Cleveland Master 
Plumbers Ass'n; 3rd degree Mason; member Germania. Favorite 
recreation: Automobiling. 

LOBENZ, Carl; journalist; born, Stuttgaart, Germany, March 31, 
1858; early education in Germany; at the age of 18, went to Swit- 
zerland for further study; remained three years; graduated from 
the University of Geneva, in 1879; taught school in Paris for two 
and oue-half years; taught Languages in London for two years; 
came to the United States in 1881; engaged in newspaper work in 
New York City, for two years; in 1883, located in Portsmouth, O. ; 
resumed teaching, and was principal of a German School until 
1887; came to Cleveland, and in 1880, became connected with The 
Waechter und Anzeiger; now its Sunday editor; 1903, sec'y of 
the Cleveland Library Board; author of works of fiction, poetry 
and dramatic writings. 

LOTZ, Jolin Henry; head worker Alta Social Settlement House; 
born, Carrolltou, O., Dec. 2, 1872; sou of Daniel S. and Ella Hill 
Lotz; educated, Mt. Hemron Boy's School, 1894; Williams College, 
1898; Union Theological Seminary, 1904; post-graduate study, 
Columbia LTuiversity; married, Middlebury, Conn., Aug. 17, 1904; 
May Louise Waters; one sou; taught St. Paul's Scliool, Garden 
City, L. L, 1898-1901; director Bethany Memorial Boy's Club, 
New York City, 1901-1904; since 1904 head of Alta House Settle- 
ment; member Grargoyle, Williams College, Chamber of Com- 
merce, and City Club, Cleveland. Recreation: Farming. 

LOUGEE, William S.; asst. building inspector; born, Buckfield, 
Me., Jan. 29, 1867; educated in Boston, Mass.; studied architecture 
with Tristram Griflin, Boston, Mass., eight years; in 1890, came 
to Cleveland; associated with John Eisenmann 1890-1900; asst. 
8.rchitect Board of Education until 1905; when appointed to pres- 
ent position. 

LOUGHRY, James Arthur; dentist; born, Johnstown, Pa., Nov. 
30, 1881; son of Clark Hawkins and Emma Louise Cooper Loughry; 
educated, Elyria, O., public school, and graduate of High School, 
1899; Ohio State University dental education; received degree of 
D. D. S., 1904; married, Marion, Ind., Dec. 25, 1906, Edith John- 
son; one sou, James Richard Loughry; member National Dental 
Ass'n, Ohio State Dental Society, Northern Ohio Dental Ass'n, 
and Cleveland Dental Society; member Psi Omega Dental Fratern- 
ity, and Euclid Club. 



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LOWE, John C; umbrella mauufacturer; bom, Cleveland, Feb. 
5, 1865; son of Frederick and Margaret Wittig Lowe; educated, 
Cleveland public schools, married, Paiuesville, Sept. 30, 1891, 
Bertha A. Taft; issue, John Kaymond, born Oct. 22, 1892; Helen 
Margaret, born Nov. 25, 1894; Harold, born Aug. 4, 1897; Ward 
Russell, born Jan. 19, 1900; started in business March 10, 1890; 
pres. and treas. The John C. Lowe Co.; pres. and treas. Edward W. 
Alexander Co.; pres. The Heights Realty Co.; pres. The Boulevard 
Land Co.; pres. the American Realty Co., and treas. The Best 
Realty Co.; trustee Epworth Memorial Methodist Church; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce. 

LOWELL, • Edwin Dwight; sec 'y American Fork & Hoe Co.; 
liorn, Jackson, Mich., 1872; son of Judson Clarke and Mary Jane 
Kellogg Lowell; married, Cleveland, April 17, 1907, Florence 
Adams; sec'y and director The American Fork & Hoe Co.; same 
offices in The National Handle Co.; Mason; member Country, 
Euclid, and Athletic Clubs. 

LOWITH, Emanuel; retired; born in Austria, 1841; educated. 
University of Prague; married, Newark, N. J., 1880, Marie Wil- 
hemina Schnal; served in the Austrian Army before coming to 
Cleveland in 1883; late vice pres. The W. P. Southworth Co.; pres. 
The Highland Realty Co.; member Ezekiel Lodge, No. 90, I. O. 
B. B.; member Chamber of Commerce, Favorite recreation: Lit- 
erature. 

LOWRY, Hugh F.; division freight agt., Pennsylvania Com- 
pany; born. East Cleveland, July 20, 1848; son of Hugh and Mary 
Paddock Lowry; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, 
Cleveland, 1870, Helen Marr; three children; private in the Civil 
War; division freight agt. Pennsylvania Compiany; member Grand 
Army of the Republic; member Union Club and Cleveland and 
Chicago Traffic Club. 

LUCE, Frank Wellington, D. D.; minister (Methodist Episco- 
pal); born, Iowa, March 24, 1858; son of Israel and Almira Deni- 
son Luce; educated, public schools, Anamosa, la., Cornell College, 
Mt. Vernon, la., D. D., degree from Upper Iowa University, at 
Fayette, la.; married, Anamosa, la., Aug. 11, 1878, Mary E. Sny- 
der; two daughters, Mrs. A. C. Hartman, and Miss Lillian A. 
Luce; was licensed to preach when 19 years old; first pastorate at 
22; began as Home Missionary on the frontier of Iowa; pastor of 
the following churches: Clear Lake, Hampton, Marion, Daven- 
port and Cedar Falls, la.; Maple Ave. Church, St. Louis, Mo.; 
First Church, Akron, O., and for five years pastor of the First 
Methodist Church, Cleveland; lecturer and platform speaker on 
religious and educational subjects; member Northeastern Ohio 
Conference of The Methodist Episcopal Church, and The Ameri- 
can Ass'n for the Advancement of Science; member Free and 
Accepted Masons, and Chamber of Commerce. 



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LUDLOW, WiUiam Wallace; treas. Co-Operative Stove Co.; 
born, Chardon, O., April 22, 1858; son of L. C. and Helen Stafford 
Ludlow; married, Dec. 25, 1882, A. A. Stafford; married, Feb, 21, 
1893, M. E. Wilson; married July 14, 1902, M. A. Logan; two 
daughters, Catherine M., and Mira E.; thirty-five years with Co- 
Operative Stove Co., clerk, supt., auditor and treas.; resident of 
Cleveland fifty years; member Board of Education, Cleveland 
Heights. 

LUDWIG, Ernest; Consul of Austria-Hungary for Ohio and 
Michigan; born, Pozsony, Hungary, 1876; son of John and Sophia 
L, Ludwig; educated, College of Pozsony, Hungary, and Oriental 
Academy, Vienna; married, Peking, China, 1903, Sarah Edith Ken- 
drick; military service in the 9th Hussar Eegiment (Count Na- 
dasdy); service in China ten years attached to Austro-Hungarian 
Legation, Peking; 1902, in charge of Legation; 1903, Judge of the 
mixed court in Shanghai; 1905, Consul in Tientsin; 1908, in 
Peking, as Chinese sec'y of the Austro-Hungarian Legation; since 
1910, Consul in Cleveland, O.; author of numerous books and re- 
ports; member of the Imperial Eoyal Geographical Society of 
Austria, Touranian Society of Hungary, National Geographical So- 
ciety of America, Societe Historique of France, Grand Cross Chi- 
nese Order of the Double Dragon, Knight of the Order of the Iron 
Crown, etc.; member Peking Club, Peking, Euclid and Athletic 
Clubs, Cleveland; Arctic Club, Seattle, Wash, 

LUEKENS, Paul G.; builder; born, Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1873; son 
of Gerhard H. Luekens; educated German Lutheran Trinity Pa- 
rochial school; married, Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1903, Anna Klosterman; 
two children; Eepublican in National Elections. 

LYNCH, Frank E.; supt. money order division, post office; born, 
Cleveland, Dee. 28, 1875; son of Frank and Christina Karn Lynch; 
educated, Cleveland public and high school, and Edmiston Busi- 
ness College; married, Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1901, Margaret B. 
Staebler; one son, Kenneth F. Lynch; entered Post Office Depart- 
ment in December, 1899, starting at the bottom; in February, 1901, 
was given charge of the money order work at Station "A," was 
there until Aug. 17, 1908; then transferred to the money order 
division at the main office; promoted to asst. supt. June 1, 1912, 
and to supt. Dec. 1, 1912; member Chamber of Industry. 

LYON, William Francis; merchant; born, Meadville, Pa., Aug. 
16, 1868; son of Thomas and Johanna Corbett Lyon; Meadville 
High School, graduated in class of 1885; married, Cleveland, Oct. 
26, 1892, Lisette Baus; issue, Marie, Josephine, William Francis, 
Jr., started in Cleveland, Sept. 9, 1885; elected sec'y and treas., 
May 24, 1897, of The Cady-Ivison Shoe Co., and pres. and' gen. 
mgr. of same Company, Jan. 20, 1913; charter member of the 
Cleveland Association of Credit Men, and pres. from 1902 to 1903; 
member Knights of Columbus, and Catholic Mutual Benefit Ass'n; 
member Athletic Club. Fond of Horseback Kidins:. 



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MacADAMS, Albert Joseph; merchant; born in Chicago, Aug. 
19, 1868; son of Henry and Carrie Crosby MacAdams; public school 
and high schools; married, Cleveland, Feb. 18, 1913, L. Jean 
Sowers; started mnfg. wood-turning machinery, and became sta- 
tionary engineer; went into grocery business in Ashtabula, 1886, 
but sold out and went into retail store; came to Cleveland, 1888, 
and associated himself with Bowman's wallpaper store; later 
joined Keep Mnfg. Co., makers of shirts, until they discontinued 
business here in 1890, whe.. he went into haberdashery with W. B. 
Davis; became member of the firm in 1898, and in 1902, after 
spending a year in Denver, established himself in Cleveland, oper- 
ating two stores (Euclid Ave. and Hollenden Arcade) ; pres. and 
gen. mgr. The MacAdams Co.; member Cleveland Chamber of 
Commerce, Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland Advertising Club. 

MacDIARMID, Roy Wright; candy merchant; born, Detroit, 
Mich., Jan. 31, 1889; son of Alex. A. and Hester L. Wright Mac- 
Diarmid; after finishing the public schools, was in a banking 
position for a time; then with Marks, wholesaler of Ladies' Furs, 
as cashier and office mgr.; there five years; in 1905, entered with 
his family into making and retailing their home-made candies, re- 
taining his position with Marks until 1909, resigning then to devote 
his entire time to the MacDiarmid's candy business; came to 
Cleveland in 1910, and established three retail stores and a com- 
plete department for making candies; treas. and mgr. The Mac- 
Diarmid Candy Co., Cleveland, and sec'y of same company of 
Detroit; member Masonic Order, Athletic, and Eotary Clubs. 

McAllister, WUllam Barrlss; contractor; born, Cleveland, 
March 5, 1877; son of Arthur and Emma Barriss McAllister; edu- 
cated, public schools, Cleveland, Mount Pleasant Academy, Ossin- 
ing, N. Y., Case School of Applied Science, 1896; married, April 
10, 1913, Martha Weed; started in business as manager of A. 
McAllister, builder, September, 1896 bought business from estate 
in 1898; pres. the W, B. McAllister Co.; member Cleveland En- 
gineering Society, Builders Exchange (two years pres., four years 
director), Chamber of Commerce (two years a director). Phi 
Kappa Psi, Tavern, Euclid, and Cleveland Athletic Clubs. 

McBRIDE, Malcolm; plumber, born, Glasgow, Scotland, April 
29, 1865; son of Daniel and Marion Ferguson McBride; educated in 
West Chester, Pa., public schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 24, 
1889, Clara Budbill; iss'ie, three sons; came to West Chester, Pa., 
from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1879; came to Cleveland in June, 1884; 
worked as journeyman plumber until June, 1908, then became suc- 
cessor to his uncle, A. A. Parker, in the plumbing business; mem- 
ber Cleveland City Lodge No. 15, F. & A. M., also Oak Lodge No. 
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McCALLIE, Audley P.; Superior Peanut Co.; born, Kansas City, 
Mo., Oct. 15, 1888; son of Jack and Jennie Purcell McCallie; edu- 
cated, Buffalo, N. Y., Grammar School and West Springfield and 
Meadville, Pa., High schools; managing partner of The Superior 
Peanut Co.; member Cleveland Athletic Club. 

McCARRENS, John S.; advertising; born, July 27, 1869; son of 
D. A. and Anna McGinley McCarrens; educated, public schools, 
Bradford, Pa., and Niagara University, Suspension Bridge, N. Y.; 
married, Toledo, O., June 24, 1896, Mary Sweeney; issue, two 
daughters and two sons; advertising mgr. and business collector; 
member Cleveland Advertising Club. Pond of Horseback Eiding. 

McCASLIN, Walter L.; pres. Buckeye Stereoptican Co.; born, 
Plain Grove, Pa., Sept. 9, 1879; son of Eobert and Mary Jane Mc- 
Kee McCaslin; educated, public and High School at Emporium, 
Pa.; two years Grove City College, Grove City, Pa., two years 
Princeton Preparatory School, Blair Hall; married, Jan. 4, 1910, 
Millie Robinson, of Lakewood ; business career, clerk for the Rating 
& Collecting Co., Cleveland; cashier Perry Savings Bank, branch 
of the Central Trust Co., now The Cleveland Trust Co.; three 
years asst. cashier Internal Revenue Office; formed Buckeye Stere- 
optican Co.; pres. of the Company; the mirroscope one of the most 
notable products of the Company; member the Presbyterian De- 
nomination, and the Roadside Club. 

McCLURE, Franklyn Evans; asst. mgr. Ford Auto Co.; born, 
Mediapolis, la., Nov. 27, 1877; son of Isaac Newton and Susan 
Elizabeth Parrett McClure; graduate Parsons College, Iowa, 1899, 
Rush Medical College, 1903; married, Detroit, Mich.,"Sept. 26, 1905, 
Marjorie Balkley; one daughter, Marjorie Louise; served as asst. 
surgeon, Wisconsin N. G.; 1904, interne Cherokee, la., hospital; 
1905-1906, practiced medicine in Neenah, Wis.; 1906-1910 prac- 
ticed medicine in Detroit, Mich.; 1910, came to Cleveland as mgr. 
U. S. Motor Co.; member Chamber of Comm'erce. 

McDANIELS, Homer; mgr. Sheriff St. Market & Storage Co.; 
born. Stark County, O., 1854; son of Augustus and Amanda Stier 
McDaniel; educated in the public schools; married. Canton, O., 
1879, Miss Mary A. Cobaugh; issue, seven children; Mrs. J. A. 
Sullivan, Mrs. R. R. Braggins, Mrs. M. L. Crowell, Edith, Louise, 
Margaret and Augusta; learned the carriage trimmers trade; one 
of the organizers of Canton Spring Co.; for twelve j^ears vice pres. 
of the Company; came to Cleveland in ]894, mgr. of the Sheriff St. 
Market & Storage Co. for a number of years; now treas. of the 
Company, also treas. The Cleveland Tanning Co.; director The 
Western Reserve Insurance Co.; in 1908, made pres. of the Con- 
gress of Refrigerating Industries at Paris, France; and attended 
convention in that connection; resulted in the organization of an 
American Association of Refrigeration; pres. of Association; diree- 



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tor Inteniatioual Congress of Refrigeratiug Industries; director of 
the American Warehousemen's Ass'n; pres. in 1908; Republican; 
member Euclid Golf Club. 

Mcdonald, Cliarles a.; coal business; born, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
April, 1862; son of Duncan and Mary A. McCoHough McDonald; 
educated, Wooster University, Wooster, O.; married, Mansfield, O., 
Dec. 30, 1896, Minnie L. Carrother; one sou, Walter N. McDonald; 
treas. in the following coal companies: The James Mullin Co., 
The State Line Co., The South Palmyra Co., and The Fairfield Co.; 
jMasonic, K. T., Shriner, 32nd degree; member Phi Kappa Psi Fra- 
ternity, Cleveland Athletic, and Hermit Clubs. 

McGEE, John Bernard; physician; born, Boston, July 3, 18.53; 
son of Peter and Mary A. (Donnelly) McGee; graduate public 
schools, Boston; M. D., Western Reserve University, 1878; married 
Mary Lavina Rogers, of Cleveland, October 1884 (died May, 1885); 
2nd, Elizabeth Dieter, of Cleveland, Sept. 17, 1892; formerly prof, 
therapeutics, and see'y Cleveland College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons; now associate prof, therapeutics, Western Reserve Univers- 
ity; member A. A. A. S., American Anthrop. Ass'n, A. M. A., Ohio 
State Medical Society, Cleveland Academy of Medicine. 

McGINNBSS, Jolin Randolph; brig-gen., U. S. A.; born, near 
Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 17, 1840; son of Francis and Anne (Hart- 
ford) McGinness; graduate, U. S. Military Academy, 1863; un- 
married; appointed 1st lieut. ordnance, June 11, 1863; took part 
in Civil War, becoming chief ordnance officer, Dept. of the South, 
April, 1864, and afterward on various duties; bvtd. capt. and maj. 
for gallant and meritorious services before Charleston; promoted 
capt., Feb. 10, 1869; maj. June 1, 1881; lieut.-col., July 7, 1898; 
col., June 14, 1902; chiet ordnance officer P. I., Dec. 31, ■l898-April 
1, 1901; Dept. Cal., 1901-1902, Lakes, 1902-1904; brig. gen. and 
retired, Sept. 17, 1904. 

McINTOSH, Henry Payne; banker; born, Cleveland, Oct. 27, 
1846; son of Alexander and Agnes Nicol Mcintosh; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Jan. 19, 1871, Olive MaufuU; 
issue, three sons and three daughters; 1860 to 1868, employ of the 
Cleveland & Erie R. R. Co., in telegraph department; chief opera- 
tor at time of resignation; 1868, bookkeeper for E. Teeters & Sons, 
bankers. Alliance, O.; also with Alliance & Lake Erie R. R. Co., as 
sec 'y, spending about twelve years in Alliance; 1876, returned to 
Cleveland, to assume charge of the business interests of Hon. 
Henry B. Payne; 1901, resigned, to become pres. of The Guardian 
Savings & Trust Co. ; pres. of the following, Cleveland & Eastern 
Traction Co., Cleveland, Youngstown & Eastern R. R. Co., Vulcan 
Steamship Co., treas. Standard Tool Co., Standard Welding Co.; 
ilirector Cleveland Railway Co., Buffalo Steamship Co.; chairman 
of the board of directors, Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend R. R. 
Co., First National Bank, Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co., International 



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Banking Corporation of New York; member Al Koran Temple, N. 
M, S., Iris Lodge No. 229, F. & A. M., Cleveland Chapter No. 148, 
R. A. M., Holyrood Commandery, No. 32, of which he is Past Em, 
Commander; also Past Rt. Em. Grand Commander of the State of 
Ohio; Elidah Lodge of Perfection, Bahurim Council P. J., Ariel 
Chapter, Rose Croix, H. R. D. M., Lake Erie Consistory, S. P. R. S.; 
32nd°, Supreme Council Sovereign Grand Inspectors, General, 33rd 
and last degree of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U. S. 
of America; member Athletic, Country, Euclid, East End Tennis, 
and Union Clubs. 

McINTOSH, Henry Payne, Jr.; real estate; born, Cleveland, 
Nov. 23, 1884; son of H. P. and Olive Mcintosh; educated at Uni- 
versity School, Cleveland, and University of Pennsylvania; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Feb. 19, 1908, Isabel Strong; issue, two sons, Henry 
Payne, III, Gregory Strong; asst. real estate officer. Guardian Sav- 
ings & Trust Co.; sec'y and director General Aluminum & Brass 
Casting Co., and Building & Investment Co.; director Standard Tool 
Co., Standard Welding Co., Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co.; member 
Union, Hermit, and Cleveland Athletic Clubs; Troop A., O. N. G., 
three years. 

McINTYHE, Donald 0.; the well-known general freight traffic 
mgr. and district passenger agt. for the Detroit & Cleveland 
Navigation Co., at Cleveland, Ohio; was born in Glasgow, Scot- 
land, but when a child of five years was brought by his parents 
to America, locating first at London, Ont., and later in one of the 
suburbs of that city, where he received a fair education in the 
district schools; at the age of 22 he entered the employ of The 
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., as watchman on one of their 
steamers, and was thus employed until appointed to a position in 
the general offices of the line at Detroit; in 1884, he was appointed 
local freight agent at Detroit, and became general agent in 1887; 
five years later, Mr. LIcIntyre wai. also made district passenger 
agt.; he has since had charge of the eastern terminal of the De- 
troit & Cleveland Navigation Company, and is most capably and 
satisfactorily filling that responsible position. 

McKAY, Edward C; real estate broken; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
19, 1876; son of George A. and Margaret Adam Creech McKay; 
educated. Grammar and Central High School; married, Plainfield, 
N. J., June 20, 1905, Louise Patten; two daughters, Margaret and 
Louise; business record, chief clerk Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce, and American Trust Co.; also Pittsburg Steamship Co., and 
Cleveland office of Carnegie Steel Co., and United States Steel 
Corporation; sec'y and treas. The Ohio Rubber Co.; pres. The 
Bodifield Belting Co.; real estate operator; member Cleveland 
Gatling Gun Battery, and The Cleveland Naval Reserves; mem- 
ber Cleveland Real Estate Board, Loyal Legion, Chamber of Com- 
merce, Union, Athletic, Euclid and Tippecanoe Clubs. 



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McKAY, Robert Hunter; lawyer; born, Cleveland, 1885; son of 
Eobert and Agnes Hunter McKay; educated, Adelbert College 
and Yale University; early schooling at South High School, and 
Spencerian Business College; married, Cleveland, April 26, 1910, 
Jessie K. Jones; one son. Hunter J. McKay; member law firm 
George E. and Eobert H. McKay, sec'y and director The Infor- 
mation Co.; sec'y and director M. K. Patent Development Co.; 
director and legal advisor The Western Eeserve Adjustment Co.; 
director and sec'y American Eemedies Co.; director and sec'y 
Eeserve Coal & Timber Co.; director Associated Investment Co.; 
director and pres. The Doty McKay Co.; director The Cleveland 
Sales Co.; director and treas. Huston Brick & Clay Co.; member 
Bar Ass'n and Law Library; member Alpha Tau Omega, and 
Theta Nu Epsilon Fraternities; Book and Gavel Society (Yale), 
Blue Lodge and Chapter of Masons, Knights of Pythias and Elks; 
member Yale Masonic Club, Three K Club, Western Eeserve Ken- 
nel Club, and Cleveland French Bull Dog Club. 

McKEEHAN, Homer H.; lawyer; born, Hillsboro, O., June 27, 
1870; son of Milton and Sarah Foraker McKeehan; Ohio Wesleyan 
University, B. A.; married, Hillsboro, O., Dec. 16, 1896, Nancy 
Spaeger; one daughter; member law firm Hoyt, Dustin, Kelley, 
McKeehan & Andrews; member Union, Country, Mayfield, Euclid, 
and Athletic Clubs, and <|) K ^ Fraternity 

McKINSTRY, Charles T.; electrical business; born, Cleveland, 
Nov. 2, 1865; son of James P. and Emma A. Miller McKinstry; 
Cleveland public schools; until 1901, mgr. and treas. The Cleve- 
land Telephone Co.; pres. The Erner Electric Co.; member Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Electric League of Cleveland, and Athletic Club. 

McMILLIN, Henry Everett, Jr.; musical instruments; born, 
Shelby, O., April 27, 1876; son of H. E. and Emma C. North Me- 
Millin, Sr. ; educated, Hiram College, Hiram, O.; married, Cleve- 
land, April 19, 1899, Minna A. Gerisch, of Mansfield, O.; Q. M. 
Sergt., Co. K, 10th O. V. I., Spanish American War; vice pres. and 
gen. mgr. The H. E. McMillin Co.; member Cleveland Athletic 
Club, Fond of Tennis. 

McNAIRY, Amos; mnfr.; born, Columbus, O., May 4, 1854; edu- 
cated in the common school and graduated from Cornell Univer- 
sity, in 1877, degree of B. M. E.; pres. Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce, 1904-1905; member Union and Country Clubs; pres. Little 
Mountain Club; member Association Mechanical Engineers; Ee- 
publican; member Presbyterian denomination. 

McWATERS, J. 0.; insurance; born, Newtonville, Can., Sept. 
17, 1853; son of John and Jean Copeland McWaters; common 
school education; married, July 9, 1878, AVolcott, N. Y., Florence 
E. Eussell; issue, seven children, of which five are living; at the 
age of 20, came to Cleveland, and worked for Mabley & Hull, 



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men's clothiug; later with E. E. Hull & Co.; then with E. E. 
Hull & Dutton, gen. mgr. ten years; went into business as senior 
partner of The McWaters-Dolan Co., now dissolved; interested in 
real estate; instrumental in securing street lights and well lighted 
stores; one of the founders of Trinity Congregational Church; pres. 
of its building committee; Mason, Elk, and Owl; Cleveland Auto- 
mobile Club. 

McWILLIAMS, Thomas Samuel; minister; born, Kentucky, Nov. 
22, 1865; son of Samuel and Martha A. Harrington McWilliams; 
Centr; College, Danville, Ky., A. B., 1886, A. M., 1889, D. D., 1899; 
Danville Theological Seminary, 1886-1888; Princeton Theological 
Seminary, 1888-1889; married, Chillicothe, O., Dec. 5, 1887, Susan 
Probasco Nipgen; one son, John P. McWilliams; pastor First Pres- 
byterian Church, Chillicothe, O., 1889-1892; American Presbyterian 
Church, Montreal, Can., 1892-1902; pastor Calvary Presbyterian 
Church, Cleveland, since 1902; in 1911, chairman of committee that 
formed the Association of Federated Churches of Cleveland; pres. 
of Cleveland Peace Society, 1911; member Kappa Alpha Frater- 
nity; member Mayfield, and Country Clubs. Golf favorite recrea- 
tion. 

MABEEY, Charles Frederick; chemist; born North Gorham, Me., 
Jan. I?,, 1850; sou of Henry and Elizabeth A. Bennett Mabery; 
S. B., Lawrence Scientific School, (Harvard), 1876, Sc. D., 1881; 
married. Miss P. A. Plaisted, of Gorham, Me., Nov. 19, 1872; asst. 
in chemistry, Harvard, 1874-1883; prof, chemistry, Case School of 
Applied Science, 1883-1911, since prof, emeritus; researcher iu 
organic chemistry, especially in investigations of the composition 
of American petroleum, lubricants and lubrication; Fellow Ameri- 
can Academy Arts and Sciences, A. A. A. S.; member American 
Philosophical Society, American Chemical Society. 

MACH, Henry Leonard; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, Dec. 
27, 1879; son of Frank J. and Mary T. Kohout Mach; educated, 
Warren School, 1894, South High School, 1898, Adelbert College, 
Western Eeserve University, 1902; A. B., Harvard Law School, 
1902-1903-1904, 1907-1908, graduated, 1909, LL. B.; married, Cleve- 
land, May 29, 1911, Blanche May Ward; one daughter, Gertrude 
Elinor Mach; admitted to practice law in Ohio in 1908; asso- 
ciated with Benjamin C. Starr up to the time of his death, in 
1910; practicing alone since at 807 American Trust Bldg., member 
Woodward Lodge, Masonic, No. 508, and Palacky, K. of P. Lodge, 
No. 317; member Broadway M. E. Church. 

MAEDJE, Charles W.; newspaperman; son of Christian and 
Caroline Maedje; born, July 30, 1856; educated, Cleveland Elemen- 
tary and High Schools; married, Cleveland, Sept. 26, 1888, Emma 
H. Heimerdinger; issue, Irma M. Carl, and Hildegrade L.; identi- 
fied with the newspaper business since 1874, 1889, pres. and mgr. 
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German Consolidated Newspaper Co.; director German Press & 
Plate Co., and Cleveland Cremation Co.; member of many German 
Societies and Chamber of Commerce. 

MALM, L. Louis; vice consul for Sweden; born in Umea, Swe- 
den, Dec. 15, 1850; son of John August and Augusta Sophia Wahlin 
Malm; educated in Government schools and College of Umea; 
married, Dec. 15, 1874, Miss Wilhelmina Peterson; issue, seven 
children; went to sea as an apprenticed seaman; promoted to 2nd 
mate; spent four years at sea; on returning to Sweden, engaged in 
shipchandlery for one year; in 1872, came to the U. S. ; located in 
Pennsylvania, with Titiusville Gas & Water Co.; in 1874, became 
supt. and remained in that position till 1884, when elected treas. 
Danvers, Mass., Gas & Electric Light Co.; in 1889, appointed supt. 
of construction of the Cleveland Arcade Co.; still retain official 
connection with the company; in 1895, appointed vice consul for 
Sweden and Norway; when countries were divided retained 
Swedish consulate; director Augustana College and Theological 
Seminary, at Rock Island, 111.; director Gustavus Adolphus Or- 
phanage, at Jamestown, N. Y.; member Swedish-American His- 
torical Society, Swedish and Cleveland Chambers of Commerce; 
member Swedish-Lutheran Church; Republican; Royal Arcli 
Mason; member Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, member 
Cleveland Yacht Club. Favorite recreation: Yachting. 

MALY, Fred; merchant tailor; born, Bohemia, Dec. .31, 1874; son 
of James and Teresa Maly; educated in Bohemia and Oberlin Col- 
lege; married, Cleveland Aug. 3, 1903, Emma Wolkersdorfer; two 
daughters; has been engaged actively in the tailoring business 
for fifteen years; member Elks, Eagles, Knights of Pythias, Moose 
Club, and Knights of the Maccabees; also automobile clubs; en- 
thusiastic over automobiling. 

MANAK, Frank C; lawyer; born, Milvesko, Bohemia, Jan. 11, 
1872; came to Cleveland in 187.5; educated, public schools, Cleve- 
land, and Western Reserve Law School; admitted to the bar and 
began practice in Cleveland in 1894, with Benjamin C. Starr until 
1901; until 1903, asat. police prosecutor, when he entered the 
present firm of Vessy, Davis & Manak; appointed chief asst. state 
fire marshal; organized the Yeela Building & Loan Ass'n in 
1896, and it now has a subscribed capital stock of over $1,500,000; 
member B. P. O. E. and Knights of Pythias; Republican. 

MANCHESTER, Frederick A.; real estate; born Otsego county, 
N. Y., Nov. 28, 1863; son of Dewitt C. and .Tulia Bates Manches- 
ter; from 1870-1877, public schools. Mentor, Lake county O.; mar- 
ried. Concord, O., May 5, 1887, Evalena A. Sherman; issue, Mar- 
guerite A. and Sherman A., who was Intercollegiate Ohio State 
champion in tennis in 1913; farmer until 1901, specialty of fruit 
growing; came to Cleveland in 1901, and went into the real estate 
business with The Frisbee Co.; supt. of Sales Dept., uiue years; in 

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1909, accepted position of sales mgr. for The Scott-Hall-Clarlc Co., 
now The Clark-Manchester Co.; pres. The Clark-Manchester Eealty 
Co. Kecreation: Eeadmg, general News and Good Books. 

MANBELBAUM, M. J.; investments; born, Cleveland, May 21, 
1863; son of Jacob and Mary Schwab Mandelbaum; Central High 
School, class of 1880; married, Cleveland, Oct. 18, 1905, Florence 
S. Levy; vice pres. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago E. E. Co., Western 
Ohio E. E., Wolf -Baker Co.; Cleveland Mining Co., Laurence 
Mines Co.; director Cleveland Trust Co., Union National Bank, 
Kansas City Western E. E. Co., Kansas City Breweries Co., Cleve- 
land, Southwestern & Columbus E. E.; member Mandelbaum, Wolf 
L Lang; member Ohio Society of New York, Athletic, Oakwood, 
and Excelsior Clubs. 

MANSFIELD, Howard P.; chemical business; born, Cleveland, 
May 5, 1884; son of I. Howard and Emily Page Mansfield; edu- 
cated, Holbrooks Military School, Ossining, N. Y., 1899-1902; Yale 
University, Sheffield Scientific School, 1905, P. H. B.; married, 
Cleveland, Dee. 2, 1907, Valentine Morris; one daughter, Elizabetli 
Morris Mansfield; with the Grasselli Chemical Co., since Sept. 11, 
1905; member Board of managers Y. M. C. A.; member Chi Plii 
Fraternity. Eecreations: Hand Ball, Tennis, and Golf. 

MAPES, George Carlton; furniture and undertaking; born, May- 
field, O., June 29, 1844; son of Hial S. and Mary J. Mapes; edu- 
cated, district school, Mayfield Academy, and Willoughby Colle- 
giate Institute; married, Oct. 1, 1863, Nettie N. Krissell, of Euclid, 
O.; issue, four sous, Harry S., Carey E., Will Carlton, and Guy F.; 
the latter the only one living; spent early life on a farm; has 
been connected for thirty years as a resident of the 26th ward 
of Cleveland; was one of the original committee appointed to make 
the boundary lines of Collinwood village; was Mayor of the village 
1888-1890; during office, opened the Mayor's Coiirt, graded Main 
i^treet, laid stone walks, organized the board of Health and Fire 
Department, built town hall, and bouglit first fire apparatus; de- 
scendants have historic and patriotic record; although almost 70, 
he is actively engaged in the furniture and undertaking business 
ar.d insurance. 

MARKS, Martin A.; sec'y and treas. Cleveland Worsted IMills; 
born, Feb. 6, 1853; son of Aaron and Sarah August Marks; com- 
mon school education; married, Cleveland, Oct. 28, 1885, Belle 
Ilaj's; issue, two daughters, Florence, now Mrs. Herman Moss, and 
Ethel Hays Marks; when a young man, went into his father's store 
and became later a member of the firm of A. Marks & Co., in Madi- 
son, Ind.; came to Cleveland in 1887; member firm of Klein, Marks 
& Co.; in 1890, went with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance 
Co.; then with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, 
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went to Europe for health; since 1902, connected with the Cleve- 
land Worsted Mills Co.; sec'y and treas. since 1906; director the 
First National Bank, and member finance committee; director and 
member executive committee. Guardian Savings & Trust Co.; one 
of the founders of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives 
at Denver, Col.; member Independent Order, B'nai B'rith, promi- 
nent in Jewish charitable work in the U. S. and Cleveland; member 
Chamber of Commerce; member and officer Union Lodge, No. 2, 
A. F. & A. M., Madison, Ind.; Madison Chapter, No. 1, E. A. M., and 
also of the council of that place; organizer and first pres. of the 
Indiana Society in Cleveland; member Ohio Society New York; 
member Excelsior, Oakwood, Athletic, and Automobile Clubs. 

MAEVIN, Ulysses L.; attorney; born, Stow, Summit County, 0., 
March 14, 1839; son of Ulysses and Elizabeth Bradley Marvin; 
educated, public schooL, Twinsburg Academy, Franklin Institute 
and private tutor; honorary degree, LL. D., Kenyon College; 
married, Kent, O., Nov. 21, 1861, Dorena Eockwell; died Nov. 1, 
1898; married, second time, Cleveland, Sept. 28, 1901, Carrie En- 
sign; two sons living, George U. and Francis R.; volunteered Aug, 
9, 1862; served till Oct. 4, 1865, private, first lieut., capt. and Major 
by brevet; was wounded twice in battle; began to teach school at 
age of 16; principal Kent High School 1861-1862; Judge Probate 
Court, Summit County, 1870-1876, Judge Court Common Pleas, 4th 
District, Ohio, 1883; Judge Circuit Court, 8th District of Ohio, 
1895 to 1913; Judge Court of Appeals, 8th District of Ohio, 1913; 
practiced law at Kent, O., from November 1865-1867, and at Akron, 
O., except while holding office, from November, 1867, to February, 
1895; took office then as Judge of Circuit Court; member law firm 
Marvin, Smart, Marvin & Ford; director Sheriff St. Market House 
& Storage Co., pres. Windimere Realty Co.; vice pres. Bankers 
Guarantee & Trust Co., Akron, O., trustee Kenyon College; Gam- 
bier, 0., trustee Lincoln Memorial Institute; member Theta Lawda 
Phi Fraternity. 

MASCHKE, Maurice; collector of customs; born, Cleveland, 
Oct. 16, 1868; son of Joseph and Rosa Salinger Maschke; edu- 
cated. Central High School, Cleveland, Phillips Academy, Exeter, 
N. H., and Harvard University; married, Cleveland, June 10, 1903, 
Minnie Rice; issue, Helen and Maurice, 2nd.; 1890, admitted to 
practice law in State of Ohio; appointed chief deputy recorder, 
Cuyahoga County, in September, 1907; Jan. 1, 1910, appointed 
recorder of Cuyahoga County; May 1, 1911, appointed collector of 
customs, Port of Cleveland; member Masonic, Pythian, and Elks; 
member Excelsior, Keswick Golf, and Lakewood Tennis Clubs. 

MATHER, Samuel; financier; born, Cleveland, O., July 13, 1851; 
son of Samuel Livingston and Georgianna Pomeroy (Woolson) 
Mather; educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and St. 
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1881, Miss Flora Stone (died Jan. 19, 1909); issue, Samuel Livings- 
ton, Amasa Stone, Phillip Eichard, and Constance; took up busi- 
ness life when a young man; associated with his father, and at the 
latters death, became his successor in the Pickands-Mather Co.; 
interested officially in many other corporations, prominently con- 
nected with the iron and steel trade of the country; deeply in- 
terested in and a large giver to educational and charitable insti- 
tutions; senior warden of Trinity Cathedral parish; member exe- 
cutive committee. National Civic Federation; member central com- 
mittee of American National Eed Cross Society; pres. Children's 
Aid Society; pres. and treas. of the Home for Aged Women; vice 
pres. University School; director of the Floating Bethel and City 
Mission; the Cleveland Museum of Art; chairman of the Hanna 
Monument Ass'n; trustee of Western Keserve University, of Adel- 
bert College, Hiram House, Goodrich House, Kenyon College, and 
Case Library Ass'n; interested in Lakeside Hospital. 

MATHER, Samuel Wajme; manufacturer; born, Schuyler, N. Y., 
July 27, 1849; son of Asaph and Betsy Emily Davis Mather; lim- 
ited education; his father was seriously injured when he was 
young, so could not go to school, after he was 11 years old; went 
to work to help support the family; worked three years in the 
woods burning charcoal; moved to Cataraugus County, N. Y., with 
his parents and lor five years worked on his father's farm; mar- 
ried, Frankville, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1887, Addie Viola Cooley; issue. 
five children, two living, Addie and William; his first wife died 
July 9, 1902; married the second time, Cleveland, Jan. 24, 1907, 
Lora E. Kock; two children, Arlo and Arline; came to Cleveland 
at the age of 22, and went into the grocery business; was in the 
business two and one-half years, lost all his money, and was over 
$2,000 in debt; but did not go into bankruptcy, but paid all his 
debts, dollar for dollar, with interest; worked at carpenter work 
till 1877; then went to Philadelphia, and manufactured a fire 
lighter of his own patent for one and one-half years; sold out and 
went to Cambridgeport, Mass.; remained there one year manufac- 
turing the fire lighters; in 1879, sold out his patent, and returned 
to Cleveland, and established the Union Ladder & Washboard 
Works; in 1882, began making caskets to sell to the undertaking 
trade; not in the monopoly; in 1887, they all joined the monopoly 
and left him with a large stock of goods on hand and no cus- 
tomers to sell to; he offered his entire stock to them, worth $1,800 
for $250; he was then instrumental in starting The Funeral Reform 
Ass'n of the U. S.; of which he is still mgr.; also manufacturer 
caskets and funeral supplies; Feb. 1, 1911, he began the manufac- 
ture of an automobile for funeral purposes, is now making an 
Auto funeral car, which carries the body, the flowers, and thirty- 
six mourners; holds the U. S. patent on the same; member Knights 
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MATHERS, James; lawyer; born, Bellwood, Pa., Sept. 4, 1868; 
educated at Mifflintown; graduated, Princeton University, 1890, 
degree A. B., Cincinnati Law School, 1893, degree LL. B.; admitted 
to the bar, and began practice in the United States attorney's 
office, in Pittsburgh, Pa., 189.3; come to Cleveland in 1894, as at- 
torney for Cleveland, Akron & Columbus R. R.; formed partner- 
ship with Senator H. W. Wolcott, continuing until Wolcott was 
made gen. mgr. Kansas City & Leavenworth Ry.; then with Berk- 
ley Pearce, firm name Mathers & Pearce; member Century, Euclid 
and Hermit Clubs; politically Independent. 

MATHEWS, Herbert; law and real estate; born, Canada, Nov. 
21, 1864; son of Aaron and Caroline (Crabtree) Mathews; edu- 
cated, public schools and Western Reserve Law School, Cleve- 
land; one of the earliest developers of Lakewood, well-known 
suburb; one of the original committee of the Chamber of Industry; 
helped to frame the law establishing a County Park Board; pres. 
The Cleveland Real Estate Board and Home Exposition; director- 
general West Side Industrial Exposition; in 1900, organized Rocky 
River Bank; charter member Phi Delta Phi, Legal Fraternity; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Hermit, Ath- 
letic, and Keswick Golf Clubs. 

MATTHEWS, John, stage name JOHNNY RAY; actor; born, 
Tredegar, Wales, Oct. 12, 1858; son of Benjamin and Annie Matth- 
ews; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, San Francisco, 
Cal., April 12, 1890, Miss Carter; first stage appearance at the age 
of 13, at Montpelier's Variety's, xu Frankfort St., in 1871; re- 
tired May 1, 1912, after forty-three years of stage life; most suc- 
cessful comedies were "A Hot Old Time," "Down the Pike," 
and "King Casey"; invested earnings in real estate; owns much 
valuable residence property on East 98th St., and in Superior Park, 
and a farm in Randall; hobby, trotting horses; member Gentle- 
man's Driving Club; 32nd degree Mason. 

MATZEN, Hermann N.; sculptor; born, Denmark, 1861; son of 
Nicolai Edinger and Henrietta Rasch Matzen; graduate, German- 
American Seminary, Detroit, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin 
(medal of second class); married, Cleveland, 1888, Emma Hale; 
married, 1908, Blanche Disette; issue, Madelein Dorothy, Carl and 
Herman; engaged in sculpture since 1893; executed groups, "War 
and Peace," on Indianapolis Soldiers' and Sailors' monument; 
Schiller monument, Detroit; Burke mausoleum; figures, "Moses 
and Gregory," Cuyahoga County Court House, Cleveland; "Law 
and Justice," Summit County Court House, Akron; "Cain and 
Abel," Lake County Court House, Painesville; Wagner monu- 
ment, Cleveland, and others; instructor Cleveland School of Art 
since 1897; member Chamber of Commerce, National Sculpture 
Society, American Federation of Art, Arts Club. 



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MBACHAM, Rowland Thomas; broker, stocks and bonds; born, 
Parma, O., July 21, 1875; sou of Levie and Eosaline Biddulph 
Meacham; educated, Cleveland public and West High Schools, 
Adelbert College, 1898, A. B.; married, Cleveland, June 12, 1913, 
Evelyn Mae Thipbaugh; member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and 
Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York City. 

MEADE, G-. Louis; treaa. The Teil Co. and vice pres. Cleveland 
Salt Co.; born, Camden, N. J., Jan. 8, 1870; son of William T. and 
Maria N. Stetser Meade; educated, public schools, Camden, N. J.; 
married, Camden, N. J., June 10, 1897, Emma Sommers Iszard; 
one son, Parker W. Meade, born March 19, 1898; in jobbing busi- 
ness in salt in Philadelphia from 1892 to 1899; went into salt 
combine in 1898; from 1898 to 1901, worked in confidential ca- 
pacity with trust in New York; 1902, sec'y Cleveland Salt Co., 
1909, treas. and vice pres.; member Chamber of Commerce, and 
Athletic Club. 

MEALS, Walter D.; judge; born, Mill Creek, Pa., Jan. 4, 1872; 
educated in the public schools of Harrisburg and Lewiston, Pa.; 
Juniata College, Huntington, Pa.; graduated from Keystone State 
Normal School, 1888; taught school in Minnesota two years; grad- 
uated, Law Dept., University of Michigan, 1892, degree of LL. B.; 
admitted to the bar, and began practice in Lewistown, Pa.; came 
to Cleveland in March, 1894, and has practiced here since that 
time; member Iris Lodge, Masons, Criterion Lodge, K. of P., and 
B. P. O. E., No. 18; chairman Cuyahoga County Eepublican Exe- 
cutive Committee, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, judge Court of Appeals 
since 1913. 

MELDRUM, Andrew Barclay; Presbyterian minister; born, 
Scotland, Sept. 9, 1857; son of Capt. Robert and Agnes Ness 
(Grant) Meldrum; educated, professionally, at Knox College and 
IJniversity of Toronto, graduating in Theology at the Theological 
Seminary of San Francisco; (D. D. Hanover College); married, 
in 1885, to Laura R. Risen, of Oakland, Cal.; issue, two sons and 
two daughters; in 1907, married Ella Hoyt Herriek, of Cleveland; 
pastor in San Francisco, Cal., Evansville, Ind., St. Paul, Minn., 
and now Old Stone Church, Cleveland; Grand Chaplain, Masonic 
Grand Lodge of Ohio, 1913; member Robert Burns Society of 
Cleveland, and Rotary Club; Chaplain Cleveland Grays. 

MERCER, George Wellington; florist and decorator; born, To- 
ronto, Canada, 1872; son of Albert and Eliza Bye Mercer; edu- 
cated in public schools of Ontario, Canada; come to United 
States in 1888; three years with J. F. Sullivan, florist, Detroit; 
two years with J. H. Rebstock, florist, Buffalo; then came to Cleve- 
land; two years with J. M. Gassesr Co.; two years with F. R. Wil- 
liams Co.; organized own business 1898; married, Cleveland, May 
24, 1898, Jessie Withycombe; issue, two children; member Pilgrim 
Congregational Church. 



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MEEIHEW, Henry Merton; attorney; born, Plattsburgh, N. Y., 
June 3, 1875; son of Henry W. and Deborah Havens Merihew; 
educated, Plattsburg High School 1898, Cornell University College 
of Law, LL. B., 1898; married, New York City, July 29, 1897, 
1907, Bessie Mable Hewitt; land and tax agt. Erie E. E. Co., since 
1907; practiced law at Plattsburg, N. Y., from June, 1898, to Jan- 
uary, 1904; entered the legal department of the Erie E. E. Co.; 
in New York City; member Plattsburg, N. Y., Lodge, No. 828, 
F. & A. M. 

MEENEEr, William E.; wall paper business; born, Ontario, Can., 
April 29, 1865; son of Christian Merner, mother's maiden name 
Young; educated, Canadian High School, Commercial course at 
The Northwestern College, Naperville, 111.; married, June 18, 1902, 
Effie S. Pratt; issue, two daughters; director The Western Eeserve 
Land Co.; owner The Economy Wall Paper Co.; Mason, Ellsworth 
Lodge, Ilillniau Chaj^ter; member Chamber of Industry. 

MEERITT, Edward A.; sec 'y and treas. The Cleveland Stone 
Co.; born, Marquette, Mich., Feb. 12, 1862; son of Daniel H. and 
Harriett L. Merritt; educated, public schools and Eacine College, 
Eacine, Wis.; came to Cleveland, took course in Bryant Stratton 
and Smith Business College; returned to Marquette, and was in 
business with his father; married, Dec. 15, 1886, Matildia Hunting- 
ton, of Cleveland; issue, one daughter, deceased; came back to 
Cleveland in 1888, as asst. treas. for the Cleveland Stone Co.; also 
auditor and stockholder and director, connected with the Company 
for over twenty-four years. 

METZENBAUM, Myron; specialist, car, nose and throat; born, 
Cleveland, April 1, 1876; son of Joseph and Fanny Firth Metzen- 
baum; educated, Cleveland public schools and High School, Adel- 
bert College, special student Chemical Dept., Case School of Aj)- 
plied Science, B. S., Ada University, Western Eeserve University, 
Medical Dept., 1900, post-graduate work, Vienna, 1901; married, 
Cleveland, March 20, 1912, Elsa Puldheim; St. Alexis Hospital, 
interne, 1899 to 1900; resident house surgeon 1900-1901; lecturer of 
Anatomy, Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1903- 
1905; associate laryngologist Mt. Siani Hospital; Government 
medal, 1904, for original research in the medical value of radium; 
sec'y of legislative committee, Cleveland Academy of Medicine, 
when it had enacted anti -Fourth of July ordinances; author of 
' ' Cleveland 's Ambulance System ' ' and council enacted the exist- 
ing anti-ambulance ordinance; member the American Academy of 
Oto-Laryugology; member of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of 
North America; American Medical Ass'n, Ohio State Medical 
Ass'n, Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Cleveland German Medical 
Society; member Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, and Elks. 
Eecreatious: Travel and Music. 



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MEYER, Gerhard Fred; merchant; born, Hanover, Germany, 
Jan. 17, 1859; son of John and Mary Heitling Meyer; married, 
Cleveland, 1885; private in the Germany Army; owner "Fred 
Meyer," The Daisy Products, wholesale and retail. 

MILES, Robert Parker; lecturer; born, Burnley, Lancashire, 
Eng., July 11, 1866; son of Harrison and Sarah (Parker) Miles; 
St. Stephens College, Annadale, N. Y., 1885-1888; Union Theolog- 
ical Seminary, 1892; married Lena B. Coburger, of East Orange, 
N. J., Nov. 12, 1899; ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1892; asst. 
pastor Eutherford, N. J., 1892-1896; pastor Eavenswood Church, 
New York, 1896-1897; religious editor New York Evening Jour- 
nal, 1897-1899; traveled extensively as newspaper and magazine 
correspondent; has lectured in U. S., Canada and English-speaking 
countries since 1901; prin. lectures "Tallow Dips," "Sparks and 
Dawn"; Progressive Eepublican; member International Lyceum 
Ass'n; Eulexion Society (St. Stephens College). Author: "Three 
Men and a Woman," 1901; also wrote several chapters of char- 
acter sketches in "New Metropolis," 1898, and sketch of George 
Francis Train. 

MILLER, Burt A.; surety bonds; born, Canton, O., March 17, 
1871; sou of William K. and Sarah Burwell Miller; educated at 
Cornell university and Cincinnati Law School; married, Canton, 
O., Dec. 27, 1899, Jane Eabe; organized the surety business in 
Cuba and Porto Eico after the Spanish-American war, drawing 
law permitting surety companies to operate in Cuba, and fixing 
the deposit required and tax to be paid; resident vice pres. and 
mgr. for Northern Ohio of the Southwestern Surety Ins. Co.; 
served in the 8th inf., O. N. G. (second lieut.); vice pres. Surety 
Association of Cleveland; member Canton Lodge, F. & A. M., 
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Cleveland Athletic, and Eotary Clubs. 

MILLER, Casper James; steamship agency; born, St. Louis, Mo., 
Sept. 12, 1876; son of Casper and Frances Speck Miller; education, 
common and high schools; married at Cleveland, June 25, 1907, 
May E. Hart; issue, Casper Hart Miller, Lawrence William Miller; 
first employed as clerk in the Collver Steamship Agency, in 1896, 
and rose to partnership; now in full charge of the steamship busi- 
ness of Collver & Miller; member Gilmour Council, Knights of Co- 
lumbus. Chief recreation: Baseball. 

MILLER, Charles Russell; lawyer; born, Canton, 0., Oct. 1, 
1858; son of William K. and Sarah Burwell Miller; educated. Can- 
ton High School and Canton Academy; married, Cleveland, May 9, 
1883, Alice Evelyn Eose; issue, Wm. E. Miller, Mrs. H. C. Hyatt, 
Jr.; member of law firm, Weed, Miller & Eothenberg; presiden- 
tial elector, 1896; major and assistant adjutant general, U. S. V., 
1898-1899; commander-in-chief U. S. War Vet., 1906-1907; pres. 
Cleveland Bar Ass'n, 1913; pres. Commercial Law League, 1889; 



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trustee First M. E. Church; Mason; member Loyal Legion, Mili- 
tary Order Foreign Wars, N. and M. O. Spanish-American War, 
U. S. War Veterans, Sons of Veterans, Union, Cleveland Athletic, 
Rotary, and Colonial Clubs of Cleveland; Army and Navy Club, of 
Washington; Chamber of Commerce. Author "Law of Conditional 
Sales, 1884. 

MILLER, Dan T.; county office; born, Oct. 13, 1867, at Dover, 
O.; father died when a year and a half old and mother when 16 
years old; lived on a farm, educated in district schools of Dover; 
in 1895, elected justice of the peace for Dover; in 1897, began 
the study of law in Cleveland College of Law while teaching dis- 
trict school in Dover; in May, 1900, graduated from Baldwin 
University Law School; admitted to the bar in June, 1900; began 
law practice at once, taking active interest in Republican politics, 
and for a number of years member of the Republican executive 
committee of Cuyahoga County; May, 1910, appointed by Carmi A, 
Thompson, Sec 'y of State, as a member of the Cuyahoga County 
Board of Deputy State Supervisors and Inspectors of Elections, 
and in 1912, elected Chief Deputy of same board, member Dover 
Lodge, No. 393, L O. O. F.; belongs to several Masonic bodies, and 
member of Lookout Camp, S. of V. 

MILLER, Dayton Clarence; physicist; born at Strongsville, 0., 
March 13, 1866; son of Charles W. D. and Vienna (Pomeroy) 
Miller; A. B., Baldwin University, 1886, A. M., 1889; D. Sc, 
Princeton, 1890; married Edith C. Easton, of Princeton, N. J., 
June 28, 1893; prof, natural science, Baldwin University, 1883- 
1889; -asst. in mathematics and physics, 1890-1893; prof, physics, 
since 1893, Case School Applied Science; fellow A. A. A. S. (sec'y 
Sect. Physics, 1903-1907, vice pres. 1908; gen. sec'y 1910), member 
American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society, Cleve- 
land Engineering Society (pres., 1906) ; trustee Baldwin Univers- 
ity since 1899. Author: Laboratory Physics, 1903; Boehm on the 
Flute and Flute Playing, 1908; also numerous papers on exploiting 
physics in scientific journals. 

MIIiLEB, Otto; bond business; born, Cleveland, July 1, 1874, 
son of James H. and Sophia M. (Hensch) Miller; educated. Uni- 
versity School and Yale University, graduating in 1896, with 
degree of Ph. B.; spent a year in travel abroad; married, Cleve- 
land, Dec. 4, 1901, Elizabeth Clark Tyler; issue, two sons. Otto, 
Jr., and Washington Tyler; at outbreak of the Spanish- American 
War, enlisted as a member of Troop C, 1st O. V. C, and became 
quarter-master sergeant; member firm of Hayden, Miller & Co.; 
director Bank of Commerce; treas. University School; director of 
Troop A Riding Academy; member Burdeck Camp, U. S. War 
Veterans; Sons of the American Revolution, and the Loyal Legion, 
Chamber of Commerce, Union, University, Tavern, and Country 
Clubs of Cleveland, and the University Club of New York. 



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MILLEK, Samuel; Towel Supi^ly Co.; boru in Russia, 1879; son 
of Abraham and Rachel Sicgel Miller; married, Cleveland, June 25, 
1907, Miss Ida Berkovitz; started in business fifteen years ago 
on Bank St., then on St. Clair near 12th St., then in Whitney 
Power Block; present location Brownell Court, occupying three- 
story building built for their purpose; all modern equipment and 
latest machinery for exclusive tow^el service business, largest con- 
cern of its kind in the state; gen. mgr. Independent Towel Supply 
Co.; pres. and treas. The Miller Bros. Realty Co.; treas. The 
Standard Apron Supply Co.; three brothers associated with him in 
the business, J. H., M. H. and M. Miller; member Knights of 
Pythias, Cleveland Independent Aid Societv, Banner Co., No. 65, 
U. R., K. of P. 

MIIiLS, George McKim; sec'y E. F. Houserman Co.; born, Cleve- 
land, Aug. 11, 1881; son of F. C. and Anna M. McKim Mills; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public and Central High School and Case School 
of Applied Science; married, Cleveland, Sept. 4, 1912, Iris Ethel 
Weiner; sec 'y the E. F. Horseman Co.; member The Cleveland 
Engineering Society; member Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. 

MINKE, Herman J.; florist; born, Cleveland, July 11, 1887; sou 
of Adam and Bertha Allmyer Minke; educated, Cleveland public 
schools; with Champion Rivet Co. two and one-half years; same 
time with American Range & Foundry Co.; The Champion Bed 
Springs Co., one year as shipping clerk; four years with Hanna 
Floral Co.; started in floral business in 1911; in partnership with 
his brother; member Nationjil Union. 

MINNICK, Chauncey F.; building contractor; born, Pierceton, 
Ind., Dec. 1, 1871; son of F. V. B. and Lucy A. Miller Minnick; 
educated, public schools, Goshen, Ind.; married, Cleveland, Jan. 14, 
1904, Helen Minerva Cleveland; sec'y and treas. The Geo. A. 
Rutherford Co.; sec'y Land & Building Co.; member Cleveland 
Builders' Exchange; pres. Mason Contractor's Ass'n, Cleveland; 
member Athletic Club. 

MITCHELL, Ralph D,; lake transportation; boru, Marine City, 
Mich., Dec. 5, 1878; son of John and Mary Rowell Mitchell; edu- 
cated, University School, 1902-1908, Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., 1908-1909, Yale University; married, Hillsboro, O.; June 
20, 1907, Helen Boyd; one son and two daughters; since 1902, 
engaged in vessel business on the lakes with his father; vice pres. 
Cleveland Steamship Co.; pres. Gathwick Steamship Co.; sec'y 
Miller Ore Co., and Winston Coal Co.; director Sedalia Coal & 
Mining Co., and Edward Mnfg. Co.; member Union, Tavern, and 
Euclid Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce. 



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MOATZ, Herbert C; manufacturer; born, Jersey City, N. J., 
Jan. 18, 1880; son of Lewis and Lorinda Kent Moatz; educated, 
Adelbert College, Western Eeserve University, B. A.; married, 
Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1908, Elizabeth E. Ford; one son, Herbert C. 
Jr.; mgr. of the Wade Park office of the Cleveland Trust Co.; 1904- 
1908; treas. of the Deckman-Duty Brick Co. since 1908; member 
Alumnus of Delta Upsilon Fraternity; member Athletic, East End 
Tennis, the Plymouth Fishing, and the Delta Upsilon Alumni 
Clubs. Kecreations: Tennis and Bass Fishing. 

MOON, Dewitt Clinton; gen. mgr. L. S. & M. S. R. R.; born, 
New York State, July 24, 1856; son of Eben and Rhobe (Tower) 
Moon; common school education; married, Dunkirk, N. Y., Oct. 5, 
1881, Helen E. Brownell; issue, two sons, Eben D. and Gary B.; 
began railroad work as a telegraph operator, and advanced to 
train dispatcher, train master, division supt., asst. gen. supt., 
gen. supt., asst. gen. mgr. and gen. mgr., always with the New 
York Central lines; director T. & O. C, Toledo Terminal, Cleve- 
land Short Line, Lake Erie & Pittsburgh, Lake Erie & Eastern, 
Zanesville & Western Rys. ; member Chamber of Commerce; mem- 
ber Dunkirk, N. Y., Lodge, F. & A. M., Watertown, N. Y., Com- 
mandery, K. T.; member Union, Country, and New York Railway 
Clubs. 

MOONEY, Edgar J.; tailor; born, 1885; head of firm of Moouey 
Eros., tailors; firm has been established sixty years; from grand- 
father to sou, to son; member Athletic Club, Knights of Columbus, 
Cleveland Grays, Shaker Lakes Canoe Club. Recreations: Canoe- 
ing, Golf, and all Out-door Sports. 

MOONEY, Michael P.; attorney-at-law; born, Ireland, Oct. 22, 
1866; son of Thomas and Anne McHugh Mooney; educated, Irish 
National and Intermediate Schools; married, Cleveland, Sept. 29, 
1891, Mary Slowey; issue, Frank G., Robert E., Mary C, Agnes M., 
Charles A., and Eleanor E.; admitted to the bar in 1891, and en- 
gaged in continuous and general practice of law since that time, 
excepting two years of service in the law department of the city; 
asst. corporation counsel of City of Cleveland, 1891-1893, member 
pres. of Civil Service Commission of Cleveland, 1910-1911, and 
member Charter Commission of Cleveland, 1913; member State 
Board of Charters, 1913; director and gen. counsel. The Cleveland 
Life Insurance Co.; also Mutual Bldg. & Investment Co.; director 
and pres. The Realty & Rental Co.; director The Gund Brewing 
Co., and The D. C. Griese & Walker Co.; member local and State 
Bar Ass'n, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, member Elks, Gil- 
mour Council, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Mutual Benefit Ass'n, 
Branch No. 6, Master 4th degree. Knights of Columbus, for 4th 
Ohio District; member Athletic, and City Clubs. Recreations: 
Books, reading and collecting, Astronomy. 



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MOORE, Edward W.; capitalist; boru at Canal Dover, 0., July 
1, 1864; son of Philip and Abby Moore; common school education; 
married Louise Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Oct. 28, 1891; began 
as office boy, Everett, Weddell & Co., bankers, Cleveland, 1880; 
clerk cashier's office. Nickel Plate E. E., 1883-1888; with East 
End Bank, Cleveland, 1888-1890; one of organizers, 1891, sec'y 
and treas., 1891-1899, vice pres., 1900-1901, Dime Savings & Bank- 
ing Co.; resigned; one of the organizers, 1901, Western Eeserve 
Trust Co. (vice pres.); pres. Lake Shore Electric Ey. Co.; member 
Evere'^t-Moore Syndicate; director in numerous electric and tele- 
phone companies in and around Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit; 
Republican; Presbyterian. Clubs: Union, Athletic, Country, 
Euclid (Cleveland), Detroit (Detroit), Toledo (Toledo), Metro- 
politan, Lawyers' (New York). 

MOEAN, Rev. Francis T.; D. D., LL. D.; pastor St. Patrick's 
Catholic Church; born, Valparaiso, Ind., Feb. 16, 1865; son of 
Peter and Katherine Kelleher Morau; educated at St. Paul's 
Grammar School, Valparaiso; St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, 
Wis.; St. Charles College, Baltimore; St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- 
land; ordained a priest Dec. 19, 1888, when 23 years of age; has 
traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, West 
Indies, Europe and the Orient; for a number of years a lecturer; 
has done much writing for leading Catholic magazines, as well as 
miscellaneous writing; pastor of one of the largest Catholic 
parishes in Cleveland, with large school, finely equipped club 
house, etc.; prominent in civic work of the city; treas. Catholic 
Educational Ass 'u of U. S. ; member Civic League, Chamber of 
Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Associated Charities, Humane 
Society. 

MORGAN, Charles F.; lawyer; born, Oberlin, O., Aug. 3, 1851; 
son of John and Elizabeth Leonard Morgan; graduated from 
Oberlin College, in 1872, degrees A. B. and A. M.; married, Cleve- 
land, July 12, 1883, Mary Betheah Eoach; two sons, Whittier 
Eoach, and Gilbert Eugene; counselor and trial lawyer in all kinds 
of law; equity and patent cases. Eecreations: Mechanical Con- 
structions, care of his Home, Automobile Eiding, Elocution, and 
his business itself; is a professing Christian, a strong believer 
in the Bible, hates infidelity and everything else that is profane 
and degrading, and believes that no man is happier than he is 
unless he is one who has a more beautiful vision of eternity and 
of everything beautiful and sublime. 

MORGAN, Robert David; attorney; born, Cleveland, Oct. 26, 
1879; son of Eobert and Katherine Morgan; educated, Cleveland 
Grammar and High School, Milwaukee Medical College, Baldwin 
University, LL. B.; married, Cleveland, Dec. 31, 1904, Margaret 
Taylor Silsby; issue, three daughters, and one son; formerly pri- 
vate sec'y to the late Eobert W. Taylor, U. S. District Judge; 
partner Morgan & Nally, attorney for Casualty Company of Amer- 



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ica, and Federal Union Surety Co.; member Delta Phi Delta Legal 
Fraternity, and Knights of Columbus; admitted to the bar in 1906. 
Recreation: Hunting and Fishing. 

MORISON, David; real estate; born, Cleveland, Oct. 16, 1848; 
sou of David and Charlotte C. Bidwell Morison; educated, Cleve- 
land public schools and Oberlin College; in 1877, member of Cleve- 
land City Council, served eight years, pres. during some of this 
time; in 1887, elected State Senator on Republican Ticket; in 
1891, re-elected by a large majority; in 1891, appointed by Mayor 
Rose as director of Charities and Corrections, under the new 
Federal plan of Government; pres. The Morison Realty Co.; vice 
pres. Stark Electric R. R. Co.; director C. A. & M. V. R. R. Co. 
vice pres. Superior Dean Realty Co.; pres. The Bidwell Realty Co. 
pres. The Sprankle Realty Co.; vice pres. Star Realty Co.; pres 
West Goldyke Mining Co.; director Hippodrome Bldg. Co.; pres 
Manufacturers Realty Co.; director Nasby Bldg. Co.; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T.; mem- 
ber The Cleveland Real Estate Board. 

MORITZ, Frederick H.; florist; born, Germany, April 5, 1854; 
son of Lewis and Louise Young Moritz; educated, Paiuesville pub- 
lic schools; married, Cleveland, May 19, 1879, Miss M. E. Kelliher; 
1862, began in florist trade until 1866, was with Loomis & Brain- 
ard, as foreman, until 1869; came to Cleveland, and was employed 
by Harris Jaynes, as florist, until 1884; then worked for David 
Charlesworth, until 1887; then went as private gardener for Mrs. 
Henry Chisholm, until 1893; with Henry Blossom, until 1896; 
in 1901, opened greenhouse for himself on Carnegie Ave.; pres. 
and treas. of the firm; decorator and designer; member Foresters, 
American Order, Masonic Order, .S45, member Florist Club. Recre- 
ation: Hunting. 

MOE.REAU, Albert; pres. Morreau Gas Fixture Co.; born, Hesse- 
Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 17, 1861; son of Leopold and Amelia 
Morreau; educated in public schools of native place; married, 
Cleveland, Jan. 7, 189.3, Lea Nora Heller; issue, two sons, Myron 
H., and Leopold S.; worked in drygoods store in Frankfurt, for 
five years; went to Manchester, Eng., in export house, as asst. 
correspondent in German, French and English languages; came to 
f Cleveland; for five years stock clerk for Landesman, Hirschheimer 
& Co.; started in business for himself in 1887; from a small busi- 
ness, the Morreau Gas Fixture Co. has grown to one of large pro- 
portions; pres. of the Company; member Excelsior, and Oakwood 
Clubs, Commercial, and United Travelers Ass'n; member Chamber 
of Commerce; Republican; of the Jewish faith. Very fond of Golf. 

MORRIS, Charles A.; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, April 
28, 1880; son of John P. Morris"; educated, Adelbert College, W. 
R. U., degree A. B., Western Reserve University Law School, L. 
L. B.; married, Cleveland, Dec. 24, 1907, Ethel Mariam Peck; 



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vice pres. and sec'y The Gates Legal Publishing Co.; member 
Delta Tau Delta Traternity, and Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity; 
member City Club. 

MORRIS, Isaac; manager; born, Cradley, Eug., Aug. 4, 1853; son 
of John Morris; educated, English common schools; married, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., Mary Allen Southall; issue, two sons and two daught- 
ers; citizen-Republican; one of the common people; business 
career, messenger, 186.3; telegraph operator, 1870; steelworker, 
1872 to 1878; "Western Union Telegraph Co., as operator, chief oper- 
ator and mgr., 1878 to 1903; mgr. American District Night Watch 
and Fire Alarm System, 1903 to date; F. & A. M., past presiding 
ofl&cer of all bodies; Oriental Commandery, K. T., past com- 
mander and present prelate; A. A. S. R., past master Rose Croix 
Chapter. Recreation: Books. 

MUCKLEY, Henry C; asst. supt. of instruction, Cleveland Pub- 
lic Schools; born, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1850; edu- 
cated, public schools and Oberlin College, degree of A. M., from 
Hiram College, 1896; taught school in Tuscarawas and Stark Coun- 
ties, until 1872; then in the village schools of Mt. Union for one 
year; moved to Youngstown, and was principal of the grammar 
"schools until 1884; then in Rayen High School one year; came to 
Cleveland in 1885 and taught physics in Central High School eight 
years; in 1893, appointed supervisor of the Cleveland Schools; 
appointed second asst. supt. of schools in 1901; and first asst. in 
1902; member State and National Educational Associations; Re- 
publican; member Disciple Denomination, 

MUHLHAUSER, Frank; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
16, 1887; son of Frederick and Antoinette Muhlhauser; educated, 
Lincoln High School, Bachelor of Laws, Baldwin-Wallace Univers- 
ity; married, Cleveland, April 5, 1911, Elsa B. Levi; one son, John 
Frederick Muhlhauser; active in law practice since 1910, devoting 
considerable time to real estate law and the drawing of long-time 
leases; pres. The Muhlhauser Co. of New York; partner Hedley & 
Muhlhauser, of Cleveland; member State Bar Ass'n; trustee the 
following: The Cleveland Music School Settlement, Co-Operative 
Employment Bureau, and The Euclid Ave. Temple; member Ex- 
celsior, Oakwood, and Automobile Clubs. Recreation. Golf. 

MULHERN, George C; ex-sheriff of Cuyahoga county; born, 
Canada, Feb. 9, 1843; educated, public schools, Canada; came to 
Cleveland in 1861; clerked in grocery store until 1863; then entered 
the street railway business; has occupied every position from 
laborer to supt.; supt. Rocky River Steam R. R., 1870-1878; supt. 
the West Side lines for a number of years, and until his election 
to sheriff, in 1904, was actively engaged in the street railway busi- 
ness; member Clifton and Gentleman's Driving Clubs; Republi- 
can. 



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MUNN, Ray Edward; dental supply; born, Schoolcraft, Mich., 
Oct. 11, 1881; son of Edward P. and Martha Heck Munn; mar- 
ried, Toledo, October, 1908, Martha Broer; two children; entered 
employ of the Eansom & Eandolpli Co., dental supplies, in 1896; 
traveling salesman for firm, 1901-1908; manager of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., branch, 1908; manager Cleveland branch, 1909; vice pres. 
and manager Eansom & Eandolph Co. 

MUECH, Maynard Hale; dealer in securities; born, Chardon, O., 
Nov. 3, 1874; son of Maynard Hale and Lucy Marion Stephison 
Murch; Adelbert College, Western Eeserve University, class 1899, 
Ph. B.; married, March 22, 1905, Leah Mildred Daggett; issue, 
one son, Maynard Hale Murch, III; editorial staff Plain Dealer, 
1898-1902; 1902-1909, employed by banking houses in bond and 
investment departments; 1910, organized the Maynard H. Murch 
Co.; sec'y and director Maynard H. Murch Co.; member Alpha 
Delta Phi, and Hermit Club. 

MURFEY, Charles L.; banker; born, Cleveland, Aug. 18, 1850; 
son of Gardner B. and Julia Latham Murfey; educated, Cleveland 
and Andover, Mass.; married, Cleveland, Oct. 13, 1886, Florence 
Spencer; two unmarried sons, Spencer L. and Clarence A.; member 
Cleveland Grays, 1869, three years; in 1868, began business with the 
old Merchant's National Bank; then with the Mercantile National 
Bank, its successor; afterwards with the present National Com- 
mercial Bank; at this time, vice pres., mgr. ; trustee, estate of John 
Huntington; director Cleveland & Mahoning Valley R. R.; trustee 
the John Huntington Benevolent Trust; member Masonic Order, 
A.1 Koran Temple, Nobles of Mystic Shrine; member Union, May- 
ficld, and Country Clubs. 

MURFEY, Lewis A.; banker; born, Cleveland, Feb. 25, 1855; 
son of Gardner B. and Julia Latham Murfey; educated, Cleveland 
public schools; married, Cleveland, Nov. 1, 1881, Nina M. Arm- 
strong; issue, three sons; charter member, now Troop A, O. N. G.; 
cashier and director National Commercial Bank; 1st vice pres. 
State Banking & Trust Co.; vice pres. Vulcan Oil Co., and Cuya- 
hoga Builders Supply Co.; treas. John Huntington Benevolent 
Trust; local resident and director Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Mary- 
land; member Union, Roadside, Mayfield, and Country Clubs. 

IVIURPHY, George F.; S. T. D.; Catholic priest; born, Cleveland, 
Oct. 20, 1864; son of William and Mary O'Neill Murphy; edu- 
cated, St. John's Parochial school. Cathedral, Cleveland; St. 
Charles College, Ellicott City, Md., 1881-1886; North American 
College, Rome, Italy, 1886-1892; ordained, June, 1892, S. T. D.; 
asst. Immaculate Coucej)tion, Cleveland, 1892-1893; asst. St. John's 
Cathedral, 1893-1895; prof. St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, 1895- 
1908; pastor St. Columbkille 's Cleveland, August, 1908, to Novem- 
ber, 1909; pastor Tmmaoulalo Conception, Cleveland, appointed 
November, 1909. 



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MURRAY, Charles B.; chemist and metallurgist; born, Worces- 
ter, Mass., April 6, 1866; son of Peleg F. and Mary Prince Mur- 
ray; educated, common schools at Worcester; took B. S. degree at 
Polytechnic Institute, at Worcester, Mass., in 1887; married, Attle- 
boro, Mass., Jan. 29, 1890; Ellen Lincoln Eobinson; issue, two 
children, Philip F., and Mildred A. ; after leaving school, asst. 
chemist at Joliett Steel Co., Joliett, 111.; spent a year in Buena 
Vista, Va., as chemist, and a year with the Minnesota Iron Co.; 
January, 1893, was appointed chief chemist and metallurgist at the 
Eliza Johnson Works, of the Carnegie Steel Co.; remained with 
this company until 1904; then started a commercial laboratory in 
Pittsburgh; in March, 1907, sold out and came to Cleveland, form- 
ing partnership with Benedick Crowell, as Crowell & Murray, chem- 
ists, metallurgists and mining engineers; member National Geo- 
graphic Society, Engineers Society, Western Penn., American In- 
stitute of Mining Engineers, American Chemical Society, and 
Society of Chemical Industry; member Emmanuel Lodge, No. 605, 
F. & A. M., Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, E. A. M.; member Athletic 
and Tennis Clubs. Recreations: Tennis, Squash and Bowling. 

MYERS, Max; vice pres. the Nicola, Stone & Myers Co., lum- 
ber dealers; born, Germany, April 10, 1866; educated in the 
Youngstown schools, and graduated from the Youngstown Busi- 
ness College, in 1881; from 1884 to 1890, with the Youngstown 
Lumber Co.; traveling salesman for the Nicola, Stone Lumber Co., 
1890-1898; vice pres. The Lakewood Lumber Co. 

MYERS, Walter Edward; attorney-at-law; born, Alliance, O., 
April 29, 1875; son of Jonathan and Emma Coppock Myers; edu- 
cated. Alliance High School, graduated 1893; graduated Mt. Union 
College, 1899, degree B. S.; graduated Western Reserve Law 
School, 1902; married, Alliance, May 23, 1904, Etta May Salmon; 
issue, two sons, Walter E., Jr., and Salmon Coppock Myers; came 
to Cleveland, Sept. 19, 1898; worked his way through law school, 
by working in a law office; on May 1, 1905, formed partnership 
with David E. Green, under firm name of Myers & Green, and on 
Jan. 1, 1913, firm name was changed to Myers, Green & Kengh; 
director The Raymond Co.; member Sigma Nu Fraternity, Cleve- 
land Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association, Commercial Law 
League of America, and Chamber of Commerce; member Tippe- 
canoe Club; worked his way through college by teaching. 

NALLY, John Aloyius; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, 1878; 
son of Thomas W. and Bridget A. Dempsey Nally; educated, St. 
Patrick's Parochial School; private tutorship; Baldwin Univer- 
sity, LIj. B.; married, Cleveland, Aug. 16, 1905, Regina U. Aron; 
see'y and treas. The Brown Automatic Hose Coupling Co.; pres. and 
treas. The Nally Realty Co.; partner Morgan & Nally; pres. West 
End Improvement Ass'n; member Chamber of Industry, Ancient 
Order of Hibernians, The Utica Club Co.; honorarv pres. also of 
The Lakewood Tennis Club Co.; admitted to the bar in 1889. 
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NEAIiE, A. William; insurance; born, Columbus, O., May 14, 
1863; son of William and Emma B. Lennox Neale; educated in 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Nov. 20, 1890, Clara 
Chandler; issue, one son and one daughter; began work at 14 years 
of age in a planing mill; held various office positions until 26, when 
appointed contracting agt. for Illinois Central E. E., at Pitts- 
burgh, entered insurance business in Cleveland with Geo. H. Olm- 
sted & Co.; later with Fred P. Thomas, insurance; with brother, 
E. E. Neale, formed firm of Neale Eros. & Co.; merged with the 
Phypers Bros. Co., as The Neale-Phypers Co.; pres. Neale-Phypers 
Co.; director Case Fish Co.; stockholder Cleveland Laundry Co.; 
pres. Cleveland Fire Insurance Exchange, and the Insurance So- 
ciety of Cleveland; member of Cleveland Grays since 1886, and a 
past captain, serving as commandant two years; member Cleve- 
land Athletic, Euclid, and Willowick Clubs. 

NEALE, Eugene Edwin; insurance; born, Mt. Pleasant, la.; 
March 31, 1865; son of Eichard W. and Emma Lennox Neale; 
public school education in Cleveland; married, Cleveland, April 16, 
1890, Lucy W. Hubbell; issue, three sons, Harold Hubbell, Eobert 
Dudley, Eugene Edwin, Jr.; married, Cleveland, Nov, 21, 1905, 
Elizabeth L. Hubbell; issue, one son, Sterling Lennox; vice pres. 
Neale-Phy|Ders Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland 
Athletic, Mayfield, and Willowick Clubs; member Cleveland Grays 
since 1886. 

NEALE, Harold H.; born, Cleveland, Oct. 11, 1891; son of 
Eugene E. and Lucy Hubbell Neale; graduate of Shaw High 
School; went to work in 1910 with Neale Bros. & Schyr; in Janu- 
ary, 1912, was made a partner in the firm of Neale Bros. & Co.; 
made sec'y of the Neale-Phypers Co., March 1, 1913; member Ad- 
vertising, Athletic, Willowick, Country, and Hermit Clubs. Eecre- 
ations: Golf and Tennis. 

NEEDS, Samuel Henry; sec'y and treas. Ohio-Pennsylvania Coal 
Co.; born, Tiverton, Devonshire, Eng., Sept. 30, 1859; educated in 
the common schools of England; with the L. S. & M. & E. E, for 
five years; since then has been engaged as a coal operator; pres. 
Enterprise Printing Co.; Past Exalted Euler, Past District Deputy, 
G. A. E., Past Grand Treas., B. P. O. Elks; Mater Mason, Iris 
Lodge, Webb Chapter; member Al Sirat Grotto No. 17; Eepub- 
lican; member Oriental Commandery, Knights Templars, and Al 
Koran Shrine. 

NELSON, Nils B.; steamboat inspector; born, Sweden, Jan, 
5, 1856; educated in Sweden; having come of a sea-faring family, 
spent his summer vacations from his early youth on board sailing 
vessels; after leaving school and before coming to this country, 
served his apprenticeship on board sailing vessels on long voyages; 
in 1873, came to Cleveland; for sixteen years, served on sailing 



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vessels and steamers of various grades; in 1905, appointed local 
inspector of steamboats; in 1912, was appointed U. S. supervising 
inspector of steamboats for the 9tli District; past pres. of the 
Ship-Masters' Ass'n; member Athletic Club, Forest City Com- 
mandery, K. T., Al Koran Temple, N. M. S., and of the Lake Erie 
Consistory. 

NEWBERGER, John; physician and surgeon; born, Chicago, 111., 
Aug. 16, 1871; son of Anthony Newberger; educated, Chicago 
Grammar and High schools, Chicago College of Pharmacy, Medical 
DeiJartment, Western Keserve University, degree of M. D.; mem- 
ber Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n, Cleveland Academy of 
Medicine, Ohio State Medical Society; Masonic Bodies, 32nd degree 
Al Koran Temple; member Athletic, and Automobile Clubs. 

NEWCOMB, Walter E.; orthodontist; born, Parkman, O., Aug. 
2, 1879; son of Wallace E. and Ada Moore Newcomb; Ohio State 
University Doctor of Dental Surgery, 1902; married, Columbus, O., 
April 28, T906, Louise P. Euggles; one son and one daughter; 
graduate Angle School of Orthodontia; member Ohio State Dental 
Society, Cleveland Dental Society, Northern Ohio Dental Society, 
and Professor of Orthodontia, Western Reserve University, 1908- 
1909; member Xi Psi Phi Fraternity; belongs to Euclid, Athletic, 
and Gun Clubs, and Lakewood Yacht Club. 

NEWCOMB, Robert Burton; lawyer; born, New York City, Oct. 
26, 1872; son of G. L. and Lizzie Sunderland Newcomb; edu- 
cated. Western Reserve University, Medical College, M. D.; Bald- 
win University, Ph. B. and Western Reserve University Law 
School, LL. B. ; married, Berea, Sept. 1, 1899, Faith Warner; issue 
two sons, member Universitv, Mayfield, Hermit, and Athletic 
Clubs. 

NEWMAN, Edward E.; liankor; l)orn, Cleveland, Aug. 10, 18S0; 
son of Herman and Julia C. Henkel Newman ; educated, Cleve- 
land public and high schools; married, Cleveland July 8, 1899, 
Helen Mae Thayer; asst. sec'y The Cleveland Trust Co.; director 
The Ohio Quarries Co.; director and treas. F. H. Dembren, Safety 
Vault & Building Co., and the Webster Safe Deposit Co.; member 
Athletic Club. 

NICHOLSON, Ezra; inventor; manufacturer and real estate; 
l>orn, Lakewood, O., Feb. 8, 1835; son of James and Betsy Bar- 
tholomew Nicholson; educated, common and high schools Cleve- 
land; married, Lakewood, June 9, 1863, Alice Samantha Fowles; 
issue, six children; three living and three died when young; was 
the first clerk and treas. of Lakewood, and one of a committee of 
two to select a name for the town; in 1862, at the call of Gov- 
ernor Todd for volunteers, to protect Cincinnati against the rebel 
army under command of Gen. Kirby Smith, he enlisted with sixteen 
others under Capt. Rice, and went to Cincinnati, were known as 



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"Squirrel Hunters"; father, James Nicholson, died iu 1859, leav- 
ing him a farm of 270 acres; for seven years, he ran this farm, 
setting out many acres to fruit and grapes; had 50 acres of the 
latter, the first grown in this section; in 1893, began allotting the 
farm; laid out Grace and Clarence Aves. putting in all improve- 
ments; procured the right-of-way free, excepting two pieces of 
land, and promoted the Eocky Eiver E. E., a steam suburban rail- 
road, since sold to the Nickel Plate E. E.; made preliminary sur- 
vey and located part of Nickel Plate E. E.; invented and patented 
The Nicholson Self-Eecording Ship Log and Speed Indicator, with 
electric attachment; Wane Motor for storing electricity; Marine 
Engine Speed Eecorder; Clutch Geering for Electric Block Signal 
for railroads; Eecording Electric Meter and several other inven- 
tions; was the first pres. and held office for four years, of The 
Eocky River E. E. Co.; director The Fanner Mnfg. Co., The Lake- 
wood Savings Bank, The Nicholson Eealty Co.; pres. the First New 
Jerusalem Church of Lakewood; several years school director and 
chairman of the board: when his father came to Cleveland, there 
was only one house on the West Side; there was no road but the 
trees were marked to indicate one; bears and wolves were plenti- 
ful and Indians camped on his father's land; this land is now laid 
out in beautiful streets and built up with modern residences, 
school houses, and churches; has lived for 75 years in the house 
his father built in 1838; it is the oldest residence in Lakewood; 
located on Detroit Ave. Recreations: Traveling in Foreign Lands, 
and Own Country, Motoring, Yachting, Eeading, Inventing and 
Making Useful Things. 

NICOLA, Benjamin D.; attorney; born, Italy, March 17, 1879; 
son of Vincenzo and Pasqua Miraldi Nicola; educated, Urichsville, 
O., High School, 1897; Ohio State University 1897-1901, LL. B., 
1900; married Midvale, O., June 29, 1905, Harriet M. Stuckey; 
issue, four children, Kenneth, Esther, Margaret and Samuel; has 
practiced law in Cleveland since Jan. 1, 1905; member Chamber 
of Commerce, Odd Fellows, Tippecanoe Club. 

NOBLE, Lyman Adams; physician; born, Smithfield, O., June 29, 
1877; son of James M. and Eliza J. Smith Noble; educated, Scio 
College of Pharmacy, Ph. G., 1900; Cleveland Homeopathic Medi- 
cal College, M. D., 1903; married, Cleveland, June 30, 1903, 
Mabelle Dorothy Davis; one daughter, Frances Evelyn, born Nov. 
2, 1906; asst. prof, chemistry, Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Col- 
lege, 1904; prof, of chemistry, same college, 1905-1905; member 
Homeopathic State Medical Society; member Phi Ipsilon Eho Fra- 
ternity; member Cleveland Athletic Club. 

NOLL, Edward A.; pres. National Tool Co.; born, Cumberland, 
Md., May 19, 1867; son of Henry P. and Elizabeth Sheermesser 
Noll; educated, Cleveland public school; married, Cleveland, March, 
1902, Lulu M. Miller; issue, one son, Edward Leonard Noll; pri- 
vate, June 16, 1889, Co. I, 5th inf., O. N. G.; corp. June 16, 1890; 



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sergt., June 10, 1891; transferred to Co. K, Aug. 10, 1892; com- 
missioned 2nd lieut., Dec. 10, 1894, and capt., July 14, 1897; 
served in war with Spain as capt. Co. K, 5th O. V. I., from May 
11, 1898, to Nov. 5th following and mustered out of the United 
States service; continued with 0. N. G. until June 18, 1900; re- 
tired June 18, 1900; elected maj. 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, O. 
N. G., in January, 1900; but owing to business pressure, resigned 
and placed on retired list; at the age of 14, went to work as office 
boy for the Y. M. C. A.; in 1883, went with The Warner & Swasey 
Co., as apprentice, graduating as machinist and toolmaker; in 1887, 
employed by The National Tube Co., at McKeesport, Pa.; in 1889, 
with Cleveland Eubber Co.; in 1891, with The Cleveland Automatic 
Machine Co.; in 1892, with The Standard Tool Co., as foreman, 
until Aug. 5, 1905, when he organized The National Tool Co.; 
(president); director The Cleveland Pythian Castle Company; 
Trustee National Lodge, No. 626, Knights of Pythias; member 
Chamber of Industry, and Automobile Club. 

NOED, Herman J.; attorney-at-law; born, Ashtabula, March 31, 
1877; son of Otto and Mary Nord; educated, Adelbert College, and 
Western Eeserve Law School; married, Providence, Nov. 20, 1908, 
Elizabeth B. Custy; member Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Asso- 
ciations; member Phi Gamma Delta College Fraternity, Adelbert 
Chapter; member Chamber of Commerce, and Athletic Club. 

NOBEIS, Willis W.; secretary of police; born, Dec. 19, 1877; 
Smithville, O.; educated, public school and Normal Academy, 
Smithville, O., graduating in 1898; married; served as a volunteer 
in the Spanish-American War, 8th O. V. I.; taught school for five 
years, 1900-1905, and during this time, attended summer school 
at Wooster University and Law School, Ada, O.; came to Cleve- 
land in 1905, and worked as a lather; was elected a member of 
the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Ohio in 
1908; and as such gave particular attention to legislation in the 
interests of labor; most important of which was the Norris Em- 
ployer's Liability Law; appointed sec'y of police, June 17, 1911; 
which position he still holds. 

NOVILLE, Frank; dentist; born, Cleveland, May 6, 1869; son 
of William and Carried Bohnard Noville; educated, public schools 
of Cleveland, and graduate of Philadelphia Dental College, 1890; 
married, Philadelphia, Sept. 27, 1893, Mathilda E. Wocher; member 
Eanettsonian Society of Philadelphia, and Northern Ohio Dental 
Society. Recreation: Automobiling. 

NUTTING, John Danforth; clergyman; born at Randolph, Vt., 
March 8, 1854; son of Rufus and Sarah H. Nutting; A. B., 
Wheaton (111.) College, 1878, A. M., 1881; graduate, Oberlin Theo- 
logical Seminarj^, 1885; married, Nannie Keith Miller, of Oberlin 
(class 1883), June 23, 1885 (died, 1886); 2d, Lillis R. Morley, of 
Mentor, O., (Ohio, 1887), Jan. 1, 1890; ordained ministry in Con- 



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gregational Church, 1885; pastor, Wauseon, O., 1885-1888; New- 
port, Ky., 1888-1890; St. Louis, 1890-1892; Salt Lake City, 1892- 
1898; sec'y Utah Gospel Mission for special work in behalf of the 
Mormon people and against the Mormon system, since 1898; writer 
and lecturer en Mormonism and kindred subjects. 

O'BRIEN, Charles C; mover; born, Cleveland, Feb. 16, 1881; 
son of J. C. and Mary Somers O'Brien; educated, Catholic schools 
and colleges; married, Cleveland, July 30, 1907, Miss Anna Carrol; 
pres. The Cleveland Team Owner's Ass'n; business known as 
"O'Brien, The Mover"; erected the largest smokestack ever 
erected in one piece, length 153 feet; his family has been engaged 
in the teaming and moving business for over sixty years; nothing 
too large or too small for them to move. 

O'REILLY, Right Reverend Thomas C; S. T. D., LL. D., Mon- 
signor; chancellor of the Diocese of Cleveland, and pastor of St. 
John's Cathedral; born, Cleveland, Feb. 22, 1873; so a of Patrick 
and Delia Readdy O'Keilly; educated, St. Patrick's, Cleveland 1879- 
1887; Spencerian Business College, Cleveland, 1887-1888; St. Igna- 
tius College, Cleveland, 1889-1893; St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, 
1893-1894; American College, Rome, Italy, 1894-1899; received de- 
gree S. T. D., from Propaganda University, Rome, 1899; LL. D., 
from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1909; was ordained 
priest by Cardinal Cassette, June 4, 1898, in the Lateran Basillica, 
Rome; asst. pastor St. John's Cathedral, Cleveland, July, 1899 to 
September, 1901; professor and treas. St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- 
land, September, 1901, to December 1909; became chancellor of the 
Diocese of Cleveland, Dec. 2, 1909, and also pastor of the Cathe- 
dral Church, Sept. 19, 1911; member Board of Synodical Examin- 
ers and Examiners of St. Mary's Diocesan Seminary, Cleveland; 
alumnus, American College, Rome, 1911-1912; presided at the 1912 
reunion of the Alumni Ass'n, held at the Hollenden Hotel, and 
Country Club Cleveland; alumnus St. Ignatius College, Cleveland, 
its first president; member Knights of Columbus; chaplain of 
Gilmour Council; started the movement for spiritual retreats for 
men, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus, the first re- 
treat of this kind was held in Cleveland in 1904; meets annually, 
with an attendance of 1,500 to 2,000; these retreats are now an 
annual affair in most of the towns and cities of the United States, 

OBERDOERSTER, A.; dairy business; born Parma township, 
Dec. 22, 1876; at the age of 14, started as a driver on his father's 
milk wagon; in 1901, started in business for himself; in 1909, 
formed a partnership, dissolving this in 1911; doing independent 
business since; has a prosperous plant, fully equipped for the pas- 
teurizing of milk. 

OBERDOERSTER, William; bottling works; born, Brooklyn, O., 
Jan. 13, 1875; son of William and Victoria Fingele Oberdoerster; 
educated, public schools; married, Parma, O., June 28, 1898, The- 



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three and one-half years with the Aunhausser Malt Tonic Co., and 
the same time with the Sylla Bottling Works; founded the firm of 
Oberdoerster & Henkel, in June, 1905; in 1909, bought Mr. Henkel's 
interest in the business, and has successfully conducted the busi- 
ness since; bottling Eenner's, Akron beers and Eastern ales and 
stouts; member Woodmen of the World, Loyal Order of Moose; 
member Heights Marnnuchor, The Gesmar Club. Eecreations: 
Bowling and Hunting. 

ODBEBT, H. S.; coal business; born, Youngstown, O., Aug. 18, 
1875; first business experience, Akron, O., in the retail coal con- 
cern of Odbert & Eoseman, 1889; with the Starret Bros. Construc- 
tion Interests, 1892-1898; with the exception of 1893, which year 
was spent in the coal mines of his father; 1898, to date has been 
aflaiiated with The H. S. Odbert Coal Co., and various mining in- 
terests, with which the firm is concerned; in 1910, upon the death 
of his father, was elected pres. of the company; member Chamber 
of Commerce, Athletic, Keswick Golf, and Automobile Clubs. 

OGLEBAY, Crispin; manufacturer; born. Wheeling, W. Va., in 
1880; received early education in the public schools of Kansas 
City, Mo., then attended St. Paul 's School, in Concord, N. H., 
graduating with the class of 1896; graduated from Yale in 1900; 
returned to Kansas City; worked as clerk for Swift Packing Co. 
for one year; engaged in real estate business for one year; came 
to Cleveland in 1903, as sec'y for the Hoffman Hinge & Foundry 
Co.; in six month's time was made pres. of the company; in 1906, 
The Ferro Machinery & Foundry Co. was incorporated, taking 
over the business of the Hoffman Hinge & Foundry Co.; pres. of 
the company; 1,100 men are employed in the plan, and 1,500 agents; 
catalog written in four languages; the company have 1,800 en- 
gines made by them outside of the United States and Canada; 
member Tavern Country, and Mayfield Country Clubs, Chamber 
of Commerce; director The Superior Savings & Trust Co. 

OLDS, Charles H.; lawyer; born, Jefferson, O., Nov. 4, 1865; 
son of Eev. Abner D. and Adeliza Hawley Olds; educated, Ober- 
lin College, Classical Course, 1890, degree of A. B.; married, 
Elgin, 111., June 29, 1893, Eugenia Kincaid; one daughter, Florence 
E. Olds; was first asst. prosecuting atty. of Cuyahoga county 
from January 1909 to 1913; member Council of Glenville (now a 
part of Cleveland), 1897-1899; admitted to practice law in 1892; 
incorporated and represent many large companies; member Ma- 
sonic, and Knights of Pythias Orders; member Tippecanoe and 
Western Eeserve Clubs; also Colonial Club, being sec'y and direc- 
tor of the latter. Eecreations: Camping, Fishing and Hunting 
in Distant Wilds. 

OLIVER, John Hemwood; general contractor; born, London, 
Eng., April 14, 1868; son of John and Sarah Burnham Oliver; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools and business college; married, 
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ter Henry, and Karl Hemwood Oliver; five years in military, Co. I, 
5th regiment, Cleveland, and one year 1st sergt. in the Euclid 
Light Infantry, Cleveland; learned the contracting business with 
his father, who was proficient in all lines of building; has been a 
building contractor for twenty years, for the past five years mostly 
in building, jobbing and remodeling, taking all branches of the 
building trades; is a tenor singer, and has sung in many of the 
Cleveland churches; was a member of the Cleveland Oratoria and 
Opera Society, when it was in existence; now a member of The 
Cleveland Opera Club; in May, 1912, took one of the leading parts 
in the opera "The Highwayman," at the Colonial Theater; has 
traveled three winters with opera companies, the Madeline or 
Magic Kiss, The Scenic Opera Co., and The Girl From Paris, a 
musical comedy; taking prominent parts in all; two winters with 
Bullock, the lecturer, singing illustrated songs; member East End 
Athletic Club. Eecreations: Hunting and Fishing. 

OLMSTED, George H.; insurance; born. La Grange, O., Sept. 21, 
1843; son of Jonathan and Harriet A. Sheldon Olmsted; educated, 
district school, Elyria High School, Eastman Business College, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduate; married, Saybrook, O., Oct. 24, 1872, 
Ella L. Kelly; one daughter, Grace S., one son, Harvard; taught 
school three winters in Ohio and Wisconsin; entered insurance 
business in 1867; built up the large fire insurance business of 
George H. Olmsted & Co., and The Ohio & Indiana State Agency 
of Olmsted Bros. & Co.; being the largest agency in the United 
States of The National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont; director 
and state agt. The National Life Insurance Co.; director Central 
National Bank; Woodland Ave. Savings & Trust Co., Land Title 
& Abstract Co.; director and treas. Union Savings & Loan Co., 
National Safe & Lock Co.; trustee Cleveland Pulte Medical Col- 
lege; member Chamber of Commerce, and Union Club; Eepublican, 
and for forty years deacon in the Baptist Church. 

ONG, Judson W. Jr.; piano business; born, Lacou, 111., Nov. 5, 
1880; son of .Tudson W. and Isabelle Mayes Ong; educated, Lacon, 
111., High School; married, Chicago, 111., Jan. 2, 1902, Mercedes E. 
Armitage; one son and one daughter, William and Mercedes; en- 
tered the retail piano business with George P. Bent, of Chicago, 
when he was 18; has continued in the piano business; traveled for 
leading wholesale firms; promoted and built, with H. J. Anderson, 
one of the most successful player piano mechanisms; came to 
Cleveland in 1904; has managed the Piano Dept. of the Bailey 
Co., and was connected with several other firms; in 1911, became 
identified with the W. F. Frederick Piano Co., as city sales and 
advertising mgr.; at one time pres. and treas. of The Anderson 
Piano Co.; was one of the first to introduce the self -playing piano 
in the West and Middle West; was at one time connected with the 
New York store of John Wanamaker, as ' ' special piano playing 
mechanism demonstrator," and received personal compliments of 
I. J. Paderewski, in this connection. 



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ONG, Walter Cain; lawyer; born, Jefferson County, Ohio, Nov. 
24, 1848; son of Moses Harlan and Mary Cain Ong; educated in 
the district schools; High School at Mt. Pleasant, O., Eichmond 
College; graduated in 1870, B. A. degree; law course, University 
of Michigan, LL. B., 1873; admitted to the bar, 1875; married 
Jefferson County, Ohio, April 8, 1875, Anna M. Mansfield; issue, 
four children, two living and two deceased; elected prosecuting 
attorney of Jefferson County, in 1875; served four years; prac- 
ticed law at Steubenville, O., until June, 1882; came to Cleveland, 
and practiced until 1886; in 1893, elected to the Common Pleas 
Bench of Cuyahoga County; served until February, 1899; since 
engaged in law practice; served two years on the City Council; 
member Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor, Cuyahoga 
County Bar Ass'n, Halcyon, Woodland Golf, and Cleveland Gun 
Clubs. 

ORB, Charles; investments; born, Xenia, O., 1862; son of John 
and Henriette Kiloh Orr; married, Xenia, O., Emily L. Currie; 
book business, Xenia, 1880-1886; same New York, 1886-1889; librar- 
ian. Case Library, Cleveland, 1889-1905; director of schools, Cleve- 
land, 1905-1912 (member Board of Education, 1902-1905); invest- 
ment, 1912 to date; pres. Ohio Library Ass'n, 1897-1899; member 
State Library Commission, 1898-1911; member American Library 
Ass'n, American Historical Ass'n, Kowfant Club; pres. Glen Valley 
Club. 

OSBORN, Frank Chittenden; civil engr.; born, Greenland, Onto- 
nagon County, Mich., Dec. 18, 1857; son of Eeuben Howard and 
Livonia (Chittenden) Osboru; C. E., Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, 1880; married Annie Paull of Calumet, Mich., Oct. 27, 1880; 
asst. engr. Louisville Bridge & Iron Co., 1880-1885; prin. asst. engr. 
Keystone Bridge Co., 1885-1887; member firm G. W. G. Ferris & 
Co., Pittsburgh; inspector and designers of structural steel works, 
1887-1889; asst. to M. J. Becker, chief engr. Ohio Connecting Ry., 
about four months in 1889; chief engr. King Bridge Co., Cleveland, 
3889-1892; since then in private practice as consulting and design- 
ing engr. for structural steel work; pres. Osborn Engineering Co., 
1900-1910; director Lake Shore Banking & Savings Co.; vice pres. 
American Art Stone Co.; member Cuyahoga County Bldg. Com- 
mission since 1908; member American Society C. E., Institution 
Civil Engineers of Great Britain, American Society Testing Ma- 
terials, Cleveland Engineering Society, Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce, American Railway Bridge and Building Ass'n. Mason 
(32nd degree). Clubs: Masonic, University, Cleveland Athletic, 
Chippewa. Author: Tables of Moments of Inertia and Squares 
of Radii of Gyration, 1894. 

OTIS, Arthur Houghton; Northern Ohio mgr. Otis Elevators Co.; 
born, Yonkers, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1881; son of Norton Prentiss and 
Elizabeth Fahs Otis; educated, Yonkers public and High School, 
and Princeton University, B. S., 1906; married, Cleveland, June 21, 



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1912, Mildred Vilas; issue, Malcolm V. aud Arthur H., Jr.; since 
graduation from college, connected with The Otis Elevators Co.; 
mgr. for Northern Ohio; his father, who died in 1904, was pres. 
of the Otis Elevators Co.; was a native of Vermont; member of 
New York Assembly, and Mayor of Yonkers; served two terms in 
Congress, and in 1900, was one of the United States Commissioners 
to the International Exposition in Paris; member Tiger Inn, Her- 
mit, and Athletic Clubs. 

OTIS, Charles A., Jr.; investment banker; born, Cleveland, July 
9, 1868; educated, Cleveland public schools and Brooks Academy, 
went to Andover and Yale University, graduating in 1890, from 
the Sheffield Scientific School; went to Colorado, and engaged in 
the cattle business with D. D. Casement, of Painesville, O.; still 
associated with Mr. Casement in the Unaweep Stock Eange; in 
1895, formed a partnership with Addison H, Hough & Co., under 
the name of Otis, Hough & Co., engaging in the steel commission 
and agency business; for some years represented Jones & Laughlin, 
of Pittsburgh, The Pennsylvania Tube Co., and Painter & Sons, 
aud other finishing mills; at the consolidation of the steel com- 
panies, and the establishment of their own agencies, the move 
was made for the selling of the securities of the rapidly-developing 
companies; to this end he purchased a seat on the New York 
Stock Exchange, and in 1900, the firm of Otis & Hough, bankers, 
was formed; first firm in Cleveland to own a seat on the New York 
Stock Exchange; were largely instrumental in forming the Cleve- 
land Stock Exchange; both Mr. Hough and Mr. Otis have been 
pres. of the Exchange; has disposed of large business interests, 
and now devotes time to the business of Otis & Co.; interested 
in the development of the civic life of Cleveland, as well as its 
sociable and charitable work; pres. of the Babies' Dispensary and 
Hospital; his country home, Tannenbaum Farm, is an active in- 
terest; it is one of the prominent stock farms of the country, aud 
has one of the finest herds of Berkshires in the United States. 

OTTER, Albert Ernest; cut stone contractor; born, England, 
March 24, 1871; son of Hiram and Caroline Betty Otter; educated 
grammar schools in England; married, Cleveland, April 6, 1898, 
Lillie M. Coombs; member of the firm of Farrell & Otter, cut stone 
contractors; supt. of masonry work for the City of Cleveland three 
years, 1895-1898; furnished the cut stone for the following: Hodge, 
Fruitland, Barkwill, Denison, Wilson Ave. Annex, Washington 
Park, Prospect St., Eozelle and Chambers Schools, St. Frances 
School and Church, Presbyterian Church, Wade Park Ave., Mc- 
Corraick Bldg., South Water St., Cleveland Bakery, Northampton, 
The Bonair, The Carle, McKinley and Oakland Apartments, came 
to Cleveland in 1889; learned the cut-stone trade here; foreman for 
different firms, then for himself; has built several four-family 
blocks for himself, and several smaller buildings; member Masons, 
Woodward Lodge, and Foresters; member Builders Exchange. 
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OWEN, Franklin Buchanan; insurance; born, Talbot County, 
Md., Sept. 27, 1882; son of William Tilghman and Mary Tilghmau 
Buchanan Owen; educated, public schools of Talbot County, Md., 
St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., University of Maryland, School 
of Law, Baltimore, Md.; first lieut. Maryland National Guard; 
resigned in 1904; in November, 1897, entered the employ of 
Messrs. Lawford & McKim, general insurance agts. and brokers, 
of Baltimore; remained there until April, 1899; resigned to accept 
a position with the American Bonding Co. of Baltimore; was with 
that Company in various positions, until Dec. 31, 1906, resigning 
as sec'y and treas., to become mgr. of Baltimore branch of The 
American Surety Company of New York; resigned, and came to 
Cleveland, Jan. 31, 1909, and entered the employ of the late E. 
Shriver Keese, then gen. agt. of the Fidelity & Deposit Company of 
Maryland; member firm of Eesse, Owen, Clark Agency, Suretyship 
and insurance; resident vice pros. Fidelity & Deposit Company of 
Maryland; member Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of American 
Eevolution, and United Sons of Coniederate Veterans; member 
Union, Tavern; Mayfield Country, Athletic, City and Church Clubs; 
member executive committee National Association of Casualty and 
Surety Agents; member executive committee Cleveland Board of 
Surety Underwriters. 

OWENS, John Ralph; dentist; born, Burlington, la.. May 15, 
1853; son of John James and Martha Ann Yocum Owens; educated, 
public schools, Burlington, la.; graduated from High School in 
1870, salutatorian of class; received degree of D. D. S. from Phila- 
delphia Dental College, 1875; vice pres. of the class; married, 
Cleveland, May 15, 1889, Louise Benton; issue, three daughters, 
Beatrice, Theodora, and Louise; enlisted in the Cleveland first 
troop of Cavalry, 1880; served twelve years, having risen to 3rd 
sergt.; member Municipal Ass'n; trustee Y. M. C. A., 1884; charter 
member Cleveland Dental Society, its third pres. and fourth treas., 
Society critic, corresponding sec'y; member of oral hygiene and 
education committee, starting the work of the care of children 's 
teeth in the public schools; member Northern Ohio Dental Ass'n, 
and pres. on its fiftieth anniversary^; member Ohio State Dental 
Society, National Dental Ass 'n, National Oral Hygiene Ass 'n, 
treas. Ohio State Dental Examining Board; lecturer on anaes- 
thetics. Dental College, Western Keserve University; member 
Geographical Society; trustee Utah Gospel Mission; member First 
Baptist Church, Rowfant, and Glen Valley Clubs. Eecreations: 
Country Rides, Walks and Work; Camping and Fishing; built and 
occupied the first house on Ingleside Ave., now East 75th St. 

PACK, Charles Lathrop; forestry expert; born, Lexington, Mich., 
May 7, 1857; son of George Willis and Frances (Farman) Pack; 
educated, public schools and Brooks School, Cleveland; studied 
forestry in Black Forests, Germany; spent several years exploring 
forests of Canada, the Northwest, Louisiana and Mississippi; mar- 
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for many years pres. Pack Woods Co., of Michigan (now out of 
business); for twenty-five years one of largest manufacturers of 
lumber in United States; owner of pine timber lands; director Sea- 
board National Bank, New York; one of the founders of Cleveland 
Trust Co.; life member; member executive committee National 
Conservation Ass'n; member board of directors American Conser- 
vation Ass'n; member New Jersey Forest Park Commission; upon 
invitation of President Eoosevelt, attended as expert, the White 
House Conference of Governors, May, 1907; appointed by Pres. 
Eoosevelt, member Conservation commission; has attended every 
important conference on forestry or conservation since 1900; Ee- 
publican; member Indianapolis Sound Money Convention; member 
Monetary Commission; member 1st City Troop, Cleveland, Cleve- 
land Chamber of Commerce (ex-pres.); trustee Western Eeserve 
University; Presbyterian. Clubs: Union, Country, Mayfield 
Heights (Cleveland), Union League, National Arts, Ohio Society 
(New York), Country (Lakewood), N. J. 

PAINE, Charles Alfred; banker; born, Cleveland, Oct. 18, 1865; 
son of George S. and Mary Pinkney Paine; married, Cleveland, 
June 6, 1890, to Margaret Helen Martin; married, second time, 
Jan. 14, 1905, Euth Elizabeth Kendig; issue, one son, Charles A. 
Paine, Jr., and Margaret Paine; asst. cashier Central National 
Bank, 1890; cashier same bank, 1900; vice pres. Superior Savings 
& Trust Co., 1909; pres. National City Bank, 1913; director First 
National Bank, Burton, O., National Discount Co., Martin Barres 
Co., Acme Transit Co., Superior Steamship Co.; member Union, 
Athletic, Mayfield, and Hermit Clubs. 

PALMEE, Herbert David; lawyer; born, Iowa, 1877; son of 
David P. and Almira Lakin Palmer; educated. Southern Iowa 
Normal and Scientific Institute, B. S.; Yale University, L. B., 1900, 
"Magna Cum Laude", married, Norwalk, O., 1905, Elizabeth 
Flinn; one daughter; ex-member Troop A, O. N. G. ; has practiced 
law in Cleveland since 1900; with Wm. E. Gushing, John H. Clark 
and J. T. Siddall; member firm Gushing, Siddall & Palmer, 1910- 
1912, when appointed asst. gen. counsel for the New York, Chicago 
& St. Louis E. E. Co.; member Second Presbyterian Church, Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Chi Tau Kappa, Law Fraternity, Tyriau Masonic 
Lodge, and Cleveland Chapter, E. A. M., and Union Club. 

PALMEE., William Pendleton; manufacturer; born, Pittsburgh, 
June 17, 1861; son of James Stewart and Eleanor Pendleton 
(Mason) Palmer; graduated Pittsburgh Central High School, 1878; 
married Mary Boleyn Adams, of Chicago, Aug. 24, 1898; sec 'y 
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., 1887; gen. sales agent, 1888-1894, asst. to 
pres., 1895-1896, Carnegie Steel Co.; second vice pres. Illinois Steel 
Co., 1896-1898; gen. mgr. and pres. American Steel & Wire Co., 
1899-.-; pres. Trenton Iron Co., Newburg & S. Shore E. E. Co., 
American Mining Co.; director Bank of Commerce of North Amer- 
ica, Cleveland Trust Co., Eowfant Bindery Co., H. C. Frick Coke 



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Co.; Chicago, Lake Sliore & South Bend Ey. Co.; trustee Lakeside 
Hospital, Case Library, Western Eeserve Historical Society; Kepub- 
lican; Episcopalian; member American Society Civil Engineers, 
Engineers Society Western Pennsylvania, Cleveland Chamber of 
Commerce. Clubs: Union, Eowfant, Country, Tavern, Euclid, 
Mayfield, Athletic, Hermit (Cleveland), Duquesne, Pittsburgh 
(Pittsburgh), Chicago (Chicago), Engineers, Eailroad (New York). 

PARKER, Charles Barnsdall; surgeon, born, New York, Nov. 23, 
1853; son of James and Harriet (Barnsdall) Parker; A. B., Uni- 
versity of Rochester, 1874; M. D., Wooster Medical College, Cleve- 
land, 1877; Vienna and London, 1877-1880; (M. E. C. S., London, 
1880; M. S., Ohio Wesleyan University); married Lena Schlather, 
of Cleveland, June 24, 1891; prof. clin. surgery, 1894 — , dean, 1896- 
1898, Cleveland College Physicians and Surgeons (Ohio Wesleyan 
University); surgeon, St. Luke's and St. John's hospitals; con- 
sulting surgeon, Cleveland City Hospital, 1894 — . 

PARMELY, Benjamin; lawyer; born, Ashland, O., Oct. 9, 1869; 
son of M. B. and Elizabeth Porter Parmley; early education in the 
public schools of Dayton; two years in Garfield University, Wich- 
ita, Kan., LL. B. University of Michigan, 1892; married, Colum- 
bus, 0., Nov. 16, 1904, Miss Mary E. Tolford; issue, one daughter, 
Elizabeth; admitted to the bar in 1893, one and one-half years 
atty. for the Fidelity & Casualty Co., then practiced in the firm of 
Estep, Dickey, Carr & Goff; later with Kline, Carr, Tolles & Goff; 
in 1896, organized the law firm of Wilcox, CoUister, Hogan & 
Parmely; in 1903, became associated with James J. Hogan, in 
general law practice, specializing in corporation law; served as 
asst. U. S. atty, from May, 1901, to September, 1905, was United 
States Commissioner for six months; member Cleveland Bar Ass'n, 
Phi Delta Phi Fraternity, Country, Union, Hermit, Young Men's 
Republican, and the Nisi Prius Clubs. 

PARRETT, Benjamin C; real estate; born, Fayette County, O., 
1879; son of Seth E. and Sarah Jane Creamer Parrett; educated, 
Washington C. H., Ohio, Grade and High School, Ohio State Uni- 
versity, class 1902, degree B. Sc; iron and steel chemist for five 
years; asst. supt. iron blast furnace, four years; real estate broker, 
two years; associate member Eeal Estate Board. 

PARRISH, Ellison J.; supt. Telegraph Dept., Nickel Plate R. R.; 
born, Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 9, 1865; son of D. P. and Ellenora 
Spain Parrish, educated, common schools, Terre Haute, Ind.; 
married, Conueaut, O., May 24, 1887, Pearl J. Griffey; elected 
Mayor of Conneaut, 0., 1902-1907-1909; only Democrat ever elected 
in "the city for this honor; was first Mayor of the city when it 
changed from a village; 1908 and 1912, delegate National Demo- 
cratic Convention; appointed by Gov. Harmon three times as dele- 
gate to National Convention of Wa+er Ways at Washington, D. C; 



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train dispatcher for Nickel Plate K, E, Co., 1886-1912; then pro- 
moted to supt. telegraph; director Journal of Progress; member 
Civil Service Commission, Conneaut, O.; member Elks. Kecrea- 
tions: Baseball and Out-door Sports, 

PARSONS, Charles Alfred; real estate; born, Dec. 25, 1847, 
Hoosick Falls, N. Y,; son of Hial Kenyon and Harriet Eobinson 
Parsons; educated, public school and graduate of Seilers Technical 
School, Harrisburg, Pa.; married, April 24, 1873, Delia B. Parr, 
Mansfield, O.; one son, Harry Arthur; Cleveland, 1874, with Cart- 
wright, MeCurdy & Co.. iron mfrs., then with Union Foundry Co.; 
at Harrisburg, Pa., 1881-1886; Pennsylvania Steel Co.; returned to 
Cleveland, as cashier Union EoUing Mill Co.; in 1892, organized 
Cleveland Steel Castings Co.; in steel casting and steel broker- 
age until 1912, when he entered real estate; member K. of P., 
Eoyal Arcanum, Eoyal League, New England Society of Cleve- 
land, Tippecanoe Club. 

PARSONS, Harry Arthur; retired; born, Cleveland, Feb. 14, 
1874; son of Charles Alfred and Cordelia Bella (Parr) Parsons; 
educated, Cleveland public schools, and West High School, and 
public schools, Harrisburg, Pa., married, Cleveland, June 16, 1902, 
Mabel Augusta Hanna; passenger agt., Cleveland, Lorain & Wheel- 
ing E. E., 1891-1894; Lorain Steel Co., 1904-1907; cartoonist and 
illustrator, New York, to 1900; confidential sec'y to Senator M. A. 
Hanna, to 1903; member Eoadside, Gentleman's Driving, Athletic, 
Clifton, Automobile, Yacht, Tippecanoe, and Western Eeserve 
Clubs of Cleveland; Automobile Club, of Southern Cal.; Country 
Club, of Sault Ste. Marie. Eecreations: Yachting, Automobiling, 
Power-boat Eacing, Fishin^jr, Hunting and Baseball; summer home 
on Steere's Island, at the Soo; sailing twin screw yacht, Mahapa 
II, and racing power boat Gray V.; winter home at Mahapa 
House, Clifton Park, and in California. 

PATCHIN, Erie Monroe; Cleveland dentist; born, Cleveland, 
May 2, 1880; son of Dr. Eugene L. and Ella M. Slabaugh Patchin; 
educated, Cleveland public schools and Western Eeserve Dental 
Department; member National Dental Fraternity, Delta Sigma 
Delta; member Cleveland Horseshoe and Quoit Club. 

PATCHIN, Eugene L.; dentist; born, North Newbury, 0., Feb. 
13, 1860; son of Capt. Levi and Eliza Hayes Patchin, Jr.; common 
school education; married, Eock Creek, O., 1881, Ella M. Sla- 
baugh; issue, Mable E., born .July 8, 1883, and Erie M., born June 
2, 1889; studied dentistry, and received the right to practice in 
1881; practiced in Lorain, Huron and Eichland counties and Cuya- 
hoga county; has been in Cleveland, twenty-seven years; his son 
is now associated with him; served four years in Cleveland 
Cadets; honorably discharged in 1889; member Lookout Camp, Sons 
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at-large; member Cleveland Dental Society, and Northern Ohio 
and Ohio State Dental Societies; member National Union (Cleve- 
land Council); member and officer in Plymouth Church, and Men's 
Club; member Cleveland Quoit Club. 

PATTERSON, William Edward; lawyer; born, Hunter, O., Feb. 
5, 1873; educated, Mt. Union College, Alliance, O., Ph. B., 1893; 
West Virginia University, class of 1895, LL. B ; married, Cleve- 
land, Nov. 1, 1911, Bertha Marian Pierce; in 1895, admitted to 
the bar in West Virginia; practiced at Wheeling, 1895-1897; came 
to Cleveland in 1897; since 1910, member of the firm of Patterson 
& Nieding; treas. Forest City Woolen Mills Co.; sec 'y Cleveland 
Estates Co.; director Euclid Stone & Brick Co.; pres. American 
Investment Co. and Guaranty Electric Heater Co.; all Masonic 
degrees (Iris Lodge, Oriental Commandery, Al Koran Shrine, 32nd 
degree); Knights of Pythias; member Athletic, and Ad Clubs, City 
Civic League, Sociological Club, Chamber of Commerce. 

PATTISON, Charles W.; lawyer; came to Cleveland from Cin- 
cinnati, O., in 1903; began law practice in Cleveland, was in part- 
nership with the late Jas. J. Hogan, and later with Francis C. 
McMillin, now of the New York bar; now associated with Harvey 
E. Keeler, formerly of the Common Pleas Bench of Cuyahoga 
County; also W. H. Hasselman and C. F. McConnell, under the 
firm name of Keeler & Pattison; university and law education, 
specializing in insurance law; member Ohio State and American 
Bar Associations, Commercial Law League of America; member 
Cleveland Credit Men's Ass'n, The Cleveland Eeal Estate Board, 
The Civic League and The Chamber of Commerce; Eepublican; 
member Tippecanoe, City, and Athletic Clubs. Fraternally belongs 
to Masons, Odd Fellows, Elks, and Knights of Pythias, etc. 

PAYEE, Harry F.; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, July 3, 
1875; son of Frank and Mary Cross Payer; 1893, graduated Central 
High School; 1897, graduated from Adelbert College, Western Ee- 
serve University, A. B., Magna Cum Lauda, 1899, Cleveland Law 
School, with honor; married, Cleveland, June, 1902, Florence L. 
Graves; issue, one son, Franklin L. Payer, asst. city solicitor, 1901- 
1907; member Elks and Eagles, and Athletic, and Colonial Clubs. 

PEASE, Fred A.; gen. mgr. Engineering Co.; born, 1873, Kings- 
ville, O., gen. mgr. The Fred A. Pease Engineering Co.; after 
wide experience in engineering and construction work, entered 
chosen profession; 1898 to 1900, asst. county engineer; 1901, or- 
ganized his own company; engineers for various villages in this 
county, also executed municipal improvements, designing subdi- 
visions, and engaged in electric railway work; firm has been 
engineers for Gates Mills development for the Maple Leaf Land 
Co., Oakwood-on-the-Lake, at Eockj^ Eiver; at present are engaged 
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Deming Forest Hill Subdivision, and other properties; member 
The Cleveland Engineering Society, American Society of Civil 
Engineers, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Athletic, Avitomobile, 
Willowick, and Euclid Clubs. 

PECK, Francis J.; engineer; born, West Farmington, O., Sept. 
7, 1866; son of Dr. Allen Francis and Cordelia A. Fuller Peck; 
educated, public schools, Cleveland and Warren, O., Hudson Acad- 
emy, Hudson, O., University of Michigan, Ph. C, B. S., E. M.; 
married, Elyria, O., Nov. 20, 1901, Caroline Margaret Cramer; one 
daughter, Helen Dorothy Peck; city chemist, Cleveland; chief 
engineer and mngr. Francis J. Peck & Co.; mining, chemical and 
mechanical engineers; director The Universal Community Mau- 
soleum Co., and the Standard Eeduction Co.; member American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, and The National 
Geographical Society; member Elks, B. P. O. E., No. 18, Commer- 
cial Travelers Ass 'n, American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
Canadian Mining Institute, American Society for Testing Mater- 
ials, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Athletic Club, Fraternity 
Alphi Chi Sigma; father with surgeon with Kit Carson all through 
the Civil War, with title of major general. 

PEKDUE, Robert H.; insurance; born, Cleveland, Nov. 11, 1874; 
s^on of Eugene H. and Cornelia H. Van Tine Perdue; educated, 
public schools and University School of Cleveland; Yale Univers- 
ity, class of 1896, degree of Ph. B.; married, Cleveland, Feb. 28, 
1901, Eleanor H. Morgan; veteran of Troop A, O. N. G.; began 
business with the Cleveland Leader, becoming advertising mgr. ; 
January, 1902, bought interest in insurance firm of Wm. B. Maxson 
& Co.; later firm name changed to Maxson & Perdue; vice pres. The 
Ohio Desk & Chair Co.; pres. The Cleveland Fire Insurance Clear- 
ing Ass'n; Mason, 32nd degree; Knights Templar, Mystic Shrine; 
member Theta Delta Fraternity, Union, University, Athletic, and 
Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. 

PEERIN, John William; librarian; born, Eugene, Ind.; son of 
William Jasper and Susan (Allen) Perrin; A. M., Wabash College, 
Ind., 1889; studied Johns Hopkins, 1890-1892; graduate student 
and honorary fellow. University of Chicago, 1892-1893, Ph. D., 
1895; married Harriet Naylor Towle, of Evanston, 111., April 16, 
1890 (died. Jan. 25, 1910); prof, of history and politics, Alle- 
gheny College, Pa., 1894-1898; prof, of history, Adelbert College, 
(Western Eeserve University), 1898-1904; Albert Shaw, lecturer, 
American diplomatic history, Johns Hopkins, 1904; lecturer on 
American hist'^ry, Allegheny College, 1905; librarian. Case Library, 
Cleveland, since June 1, 1905; organized, 1899, and chairman until 
1903, conference of Collegiate and Secondary School Instructors 
of Western Eeserve University; sec'y Dept. of Higher Education, 
N. E. A., 1902; pres. Ohio Library Ass'n, 1907-1908; member Amer- 
ican Historical Ass'n, American Political Science Ass'n, A. L. A.; 
Eepubliean; contributor on historical, educational, and biograph- 
ical subjects to historical and educational journals. 



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PETRIE. John Robertson; plumber; born, Scotland, Sept. 26, 
1863; son of William and Charlotte Eobertson Petrie; 1869-1877, 
Cleveland public schools, and Elgin, County of Moray, Scotland; 
married, Elgin, Sept. 23, 1886, Margaret Sutherland; six children; 
18 years in military service, volunteer; retired as col. sergt. of B 
Co., 6th U. B., Carlton, Highlanders, 1905; sixteen years in the 
plumbing business at Aberlour, Bauflfshire, Scotland; five years in 
business in Cleveland; member Order of Scottish Clans, Clan Grant, 
No. 17, Cleveland, Euclid Lodge, No. 599, F. & A. M.; member the 
Old Stone Church. 

PETRO, John M.; born, Hungary, 1877; educated in Parochial 

schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 1898, Mary Melleza; six 
children, three boys and three girls; started as mechanical pattern 
maker's apprentice in 1890, working for several years on out-door 
work on account of poor health; 1897, started as apprentice 
plumber, for his brother, J. J. Petro; bought his business in 1910; 
does high class of work and has good trade, built up by honest 
methods and good work; well-known among Hungarians of the 
city, as parents were pioneers from Hungary; in 1894, organized 
St. Stephen's Young Men's Society, sec'y and treas. of same; 
member Lincoln Tent of Maccabees; also member Gilmour Court, 
Catholic Order of Foresters. 

PFEIL, Nicholas; rector St. Peter's Church; born, Cleveland, 
Nov. 4, 1859; son of Lawrence and Frances Eeinhart Pfeil; edu- 
cated, St. Mary's and St. Stephen's Parochial schools, Canisius 
College, Buffalo, N. Y., B. A., St. Mary's Theological Seminary, 
Cleveland, Ohio; graduated at Canisius College, June, 1878; en- 
tered St. Mary's Theological Seminary, September, 1878; was or- 
dained to the Priesthood, July 1, 1883, at a little over 23 years of 
age; appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Hubbard, O., August, 
1883; transferred to Holy Trinity Church, March 2, 1884; appointed 
irremovable rector of St. Peter's Church, Cleveland, May 9, 1897: 
director of the Holy Childhood Society for the Diocese of Ohio; 
visited the British Isles, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and 
Holland in 1895; second visit to Europe in 1903; made a trip to 
the Holy Land in the fall of 1908; gave an account of his travels 
in Catholic Universe and the Stimme der Wahrheit, beside a knowl- 
edge of the classical languages, possesses a thorough acquaintance 
with English and German; parents immigrated from Baden in 
1874, and belonged to the pioneers of Cleveland, 

PHARB, William G.; attorney-at-law; born, Warrensville, O., 
June 29, 1863; son of Thomas and Mary Short Phare; educated, 
public schools and Shaw Academy, East Cleveland; graduated 
from the National Normal University, Lebanon, 0., in 1882; mar- 
ried, Lebanon, O., Nov. 26, 1884, Mattie M. Linder; one son, Ray 



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Pliare; member Ohio Legislature, 1900-1902, Ohio Senate, 1910- 
1912, Mayor of the Village of Clevelacd Heights, 1912-1914; active 
professional career; organized The Fairmount Savings Bank Co., 
in 1902; afterwards merged with The Cleveland Trust Co.; also 
active in real estate matters; member Cleveland and State Bar 
Associations, and Cleveland Fire Insurance Exchange; for several 
years, member Board oi Education of Cleveland Heights; trustee 
Cleveland Heights M. E. Church; member Tippecanoe, and Cleve- 
land Heights Men's Clubs. 

±>HENEGER, Charles R.; dentist; born, Cleveland, March 15, 
ISri ; son of Benjamin H. and Emma Easty Pheneger; educated in 
public schools of Columbus, Cleveland high schools, Ohio State 
University, and Western Keserve Dental College; married, Cleve- 
land, Dec. 1, 1908, Florence I. Gillmore; member Psi Omega. 

PHYPEES, Charles J.; insurance; born, Cleveland, Oct. 22, 1874; 
son of George S. and Catherine E. Barker Phypers; common school 
education in Cleveland; married, Cleveland, June 21, 1905, Harriet 
B. Wood; issue, one son: began work at 14 years, is postal messen- 
ger boy; office at 15, with L. S. & M. S. ; office position at 17, with 
Sherwin-Williams Co.; when 23, entered insurance office of Fred P. 
Thomas Co.; in 1900, with brother, George W., formed the Phypers 
Ero''. Co.. irip"rance; in 1913, coupolidpted with Neale Bros. Co., 
as the Neale-Phypers Co.; treas. Neale-Phyperg Co. 

PHYPEES, George William; insurance; born, Cleveland, April 
8, 1873; son of George S. and Catherine E. Barker Phypers; com- 
mon school education; married, Cleveland, Sept. 1, 1900, Maude P. 
Maynard; issue, five children; began as postal telegraph messenger 
boy; clerk L. S. & M. S. ; insurance business 19 years; with Phypers 
Bros. & Co., since 1900; vice pres. Neale-Phypers Co.; member 
East Cleveland Baptist Church. 

PICKANDS, Henry S.; Pickands Mather Co.; born, Marquette, 
Mich., Oct. 4, 1875; attended piblic and University School of 
Cleveland; graduated from Yale in 1897, with degree of Bachelor 
of Philosophy; took a course in Civil Engineering, and immedi- 
ately entered the business of Pickands-Mather Co., founded by his 
father. Colonel James Pickands; married, Marquette, Mich^ Dec. 
27, 1899, Miss Jeanne Call; issue, four children, Elizabeth, Caro- 
line, James, and Henry S., Jr.; Mayor of Euclid for five years, 
from 1903 to 1908; Eepublican; member Chamber of Commerce, 
Union, Country, and University Clubs. 

PICKETT, Phillip James; plumbing business; born, Buffalo, 
June 18, 1866; son of Michael and B. Elizabeth Rogers Pickett; 
educated, Cleveland public schools and St. Joseph's College; at 
the age of 17, left college to learn the plumber's trade; served 
four years as an apprentice; traveled through the United States, 
working as a journeyman plumber; at the end of eight years, 

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returned to Cleveland; eighteen years ago, started his own busi- 
ness; has been very successful and credit it to perseverance, hon- 
esty and good workmanship; member of the Knights of Columbus; 
member Master Plumber's Club. Recreations: All Out-door 
Sports, and Beading along Historical Lines. 

PIERCE, C?lifford E.; treas. The Betz-Pierce Co.; born, Green- 
field, O., July 15, 1880; Cleveland public schools; married, Cleve- 
land, Sept. 2, 1903, Jessie V. Palmer; with The Bassett-Presley Co. 
for fifteen years; sales manager; when they were merged into the 
Steel Corporation, A. B. Betz and himself formed Betz-Pierce Co., 
incorporated, July 3, 1911; jobbers high-grade steel; now treas. 
and director; his grandfather, Franklin Pierce, came to Cleve- 
land, then Ohio City, about 1830; member Cleveland Athletic 
Club, Halcyon Lodge, F. & A. M., McKinley Chapter, R. A. M. 

PIEECE, Stephen Lawrence; manufacturer shoes; born, Birm- 
ingham, O., Nov. 4, 1855; son of Bennett and Clarry Pierce; edu- 
cated, Oberlin College; married, Cleveland, May 10, 1882, Kittle 
J. Hawkint, many years with the old firm of Childs, Groflf & Co., 
shoe jobbers; in 1884, started to manufacture shoes and has con- 
tinued in same line until the present time; has a large trade in 
most of the states of the Union; head of S. L. Pierce & Co.; direc- 
tor First National Bank, Guardian Savings & Trust Co., Clifton 
Land & Improvement Co.; member Chamber of Commerce; served 
one year as treas. of the Chamber; member Union, Clifton, and 
Athletic Clubs; member Gatling Gun Battery. 

PINKETT, George M.; mgr. Cleveland Branch, Armour & Co.; 
born, Elyria, O., Sept. 6, 1857; son of Samuel and Maria Pinkett; 
left school at the age of 14, and went to work; married, Cleve- 
land, Jan. 1, 1883, Miss M. Caloo; issue, two sons, George and 
Joseph; with Jas. Gibbon & Co., meat and provision dealers, from 
1874 until 1891, sec 'y and mgr. of the Company; in 1903, Mr. Ar- 
mour bought their wholesale dept.; became mgr. of Cleveland 
Branch; also opened branch houses in Akron, Canton, Youngstown, 
Sandusky, Findlay, and Lorain, O.; director the Gibbon & Pinkett 
Co.; member Elks, and Eagles; Republican. 

PINYOUN, Frederick Charles; builder and contractor; born, 
November 5, 1856; sou of Thomas Pinyoun; mother's maiden name 
Pinyoun; educated. Lower Sussex, England; married, England, 
Aug. 19, 1876, Mary Beck; issue, four sons, six daughters; served 
one year with the 1st Sussex Volunteer Artillery; manager Pin- 
youn & Son. 

PLACAK, Joseph diaries; physician; born, Cleveland, Feb. 22, 
1882; son of Anthony and Jennie Goldstein Placak; educated, pub- 
lic schools, Cleveland, M. D., Medical Department, Ohio Wesleyan 
University; post-graduate. University of Prague, Austria; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, March 20, 1907, Eunice S. Emde; two children; 



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resident pathologist and resident physician, Cleveland City Hos- 
pital, 1903-1905; medical supt., Cooley Farm's, Warrensville, 1906- 
1910, in charge of tuberculosis work open air schools of Cleveland, 
public schools, 1911-1913; lecturer on internal medicine, Cleveland 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1905-1911; visiting patholo- 
gist, Cleveland City Hospital, 1906-1907; physician in charge Tu- 
berculosis Dispensary, Haymarket District; visiting pathologist, 
Eddy Road Hospital; member American Medical National Ass'n 
for study and prevention of tuberculosis, Cleveland Academy of 
Msdicine, Ohio State Medical Ass'n; director of Freedom Liquor 
League; member Phi Beta Pi Fraternity; sec'y Alumni Ass'n, 
Western Reserve Medical College; member Knights of Pythias, 
and City Club of Cleveland. 

PLAINER, Samnel Ball; university prof.; born, Unionville, 
Conn., Dec. 4, 1863; son of William and Emily Childs (Ball) 
Platner; brother of John Winthrop Platner (q. v.); A. B., Yale, 
1883, Ph. D., 1885; married Leonora Sayre, of Utica, N. Y., Juno 
29, 1892; instructor Latin and French, 1885-1890; asst. prof. Latin, 
1890-1892; prof, since 1892; Western Reserve University, sec'y 
mngr. com. 1897-1911: professor, 1899-1900; American School Clas- 
sical Studies in Rome; pres. American Philological Ass'n, 1900- 
1901. Editor: Greek and Roman Versification (from German of 
Lucian Muller), 1892; Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny, 
1894. Author: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome, 
1904, 2nd edit., 1911. 

PLUMMER, Artemus Clark; optometrist; born in a log cabin, 
near Harmony, Ind. ; son of Thomas Jermiah and Martha Richards 
Plummer; educated in district school of Indiana, and Blackwater, 
Mo.; at the age of 16, began work on a farm and continued at it 
until 21 years old, then went to Kansas City, and entered Spald- 
ing's Commercial College; doing odd joos to pay his way; 1899, 
went to New York City, and entered Dr. R. H. Knowles' School 
of Optometry, graduating in 1901; previous to coming to Cleve- 
land, was with Tiffany & Co., New York City, for several years. 

POE, Joseph Ralph; civil engineer; born, Brooklyn, O., Aug. 10, 
1877; son of Joseph Charles and Elizabeth Dundas Smith Poe; 
educated, Cleveland public schools. Case School of Applied Science, 
degrees of Bachelor of Science, 1901, and Civil Engineer, 1905; 
married, Cleveland, Sept. 7, 1904, Ottilia Ida Obert; issue, Joseph 
M. Poe and Ida O. Poe; 1897, employed by City of Cleveland help- 
ing to lay out City Park System along Rockefeller Parkway and 
Shaker Heights; with Brown Hoisting Machine Co., designing and 
detailing several large coal and ore-handling installations, includ- 
ing a coal unloading crane for the Panama Canal; with The Forest 
City Steel & Iron Co., on several large mill and office buildings, in- 
cluding the Rockefeller Bldg.; with Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co., as 
chief draughtsman of structural dept., on coal and ore-handling 
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Crane, two 150-ton Tloating Cranes, four beam and four Chamber 
Cranes for tLe United States Government at Panama; member 
American Society of Civil Engineers, Cleveland Engineering So- 
city, Chamber of Industry, and Lakewood Tennis Club. Recreation: 
Eacing of Homing Pigeons. 

POLLOCK, Wilfred S.; dept. mgr. Weideman Co.; born, New 
York City, Sept. 3, 1863; son of Joseph and Sarah Beardsley Pol- 
lock; educated in New York schools; married, New York, April 14, 
1887, Harriet A. Hotchkiss; issue, one son, Preston Ganson, March 
13, 1902; came to Cleveland in 1893, as dept. mgr. with Weideman 
Co., which position he still holds; director Weideman Co.; member 
U. S. Geographical Society; member Chamber tf Commerce, Sons 
of American Revolution, Cleveland Athletic, Hermit, and Rotary 
Clubs. Favorite recreations are Golfing and Farming. 

POND, Daniel H.; pres. and gen. mgr. Economy Bldg. & Loan 
Co.; born, Petroleum Center, Pa., March 11, 1870; son of Henry 
Herbert and Maria M. (Gates) Pond; educated, district schools of 
Trumbull County, public schools Cleveland, and Allegheny College; 
married, May 17, 1891, Miss Ola Clark; one son, Ralph; worked 
one year in a factory in Painesville, O. ; came to Cleveland aud 
worked for The Cleveland Baking Co., as driver; later purchasing 
agt. one year; served one enlistment 7th U. S. Cavalry; messenger 
for the Adams Express Co.; then entered the real estate and insur- 
ance business and in 1894, became connected with The Economy 
Bldg. and Loan Co.; in 1907, elected vice pres.; senior member the 
insurance firm of Pond Bros., represen'.ing many important compa- 
nies; Methodist; Republican; member Chamber of Commerce, 
Knights of Pythias, Military Order of Foreign War, and Military 
and Naval Order of the Spanish-American War; captain 5th O. V. 
I., during war with Spain, and later lieut. col. 5th Infantry, O. N. 
G., until retired. 

POOL, Charles E.; coal operator; born, Irwin, Pa., July 8, 1881; 
educated, public schools; married, Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 1911; 
business career, real estate, Allegheny City, Pa., 1890-1902, W. Y. 
Bygate Co.; vice pres. one year; 1903, owned and operated coal 
mine at Gorman, Md., on the West Va. Central; 1904, organized 
The Continental Fuel Co.; 1906, owned and operated Quaker Valley 
mine, Rogers, O. ; 1908, owned and operated Shamrock mines, Moro, 
Pa.; sold to Pittsburg Cambria Co.; same year, took over Russell 
Hill at Delroy, O.; 1910, operated mine at Clements, W. Va.; 1912, 
organized Claybrook Coal Mining Co.; Banner Creek, W. Va.; 
sec'y and treas. Claybrook Coal Mining Co.; member Athletic Club; 
also Wisconsin Gas Ass'n. 

POST, Ernest M.; insurance; born, Avoca, Louisiana, Sept. 1, 
1862; son of Ralph B. and Ellen Deming Post; educated, Norwalk, 
Conn., and Hanover, Va.; married, Milwaukee, Wis., March 27, 
1894, Alice C. Paine; 1882 to 1892, connected with the firm of 



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E. B. Post & Son, wholesale grocers, New Orleans; in 1892, entered 
the employ of The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, in 
New Orleans; was transferred to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1893; in 
3903, was made mgr. of the company tor the territory of Northern 
Michigan and Northern Wisconsin; the following year, was put 
in charge of the company's interests in Indiana, with headquarters 
in Indianapolis; was appointed mgr. for Northwestern Ohio, in 
1907; member Euclid, and Athletic Clubs, and Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

POTTER, Frederick P.; lumber dealer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 24, 
1871; son of Abel H. and Augusta Wilsey Potter; educated, Cen- 
tral High School, 1891; married, April 5, 1893, Mabel C. Matson; 
one daughter, Dorothy R. Potter; succeeded to the interest of 
A. H. Potter, in the co-partnership of Potter-Teare Co., upon his 
death, June 15, 1904; member of firm since 1900; sec'y and treas. 
also director The Potter-Teare Transit Co.; director Central Na- 
tional Bank, Federal Union Insurance Co., K. I. Herman Co.; mem- 
ber Euclid, Athletic, and Willowick Clubs. Recreation: Golf. 

POWELL, Albert E.; attorney-at-law; born, Montreal, Can., 
Nov. 9, 1874; son of Lewis T. and Mary Lyndon Powell; educated 
Western Reserve University (LL. B., 1899); attended Harvard 
Law School, 1899-1900; began practice in Cleveland in the fall of 
1900; formerly in partnership with Martin A. Foran and A. J. 
Pierson; both are now judges of the Common Pleas Court of Cuya- 
hoga County; is now practicing alone; member Harvard Club, 
Masonic Order, and Royal Arcanum, and Tippecanoe Club. 

PRATT, Charles Wheeler; engineering, civil and landscape; 
born, Nashua, N. H., in 1865; son of Charles W. and Sarah Ann 
White Pratt; early education in public schools of Boston, Mass.; 
attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology; married, Cleve- 
land, 1902, Miss Frederika Bailey; in 1881, worked for E. W. 
Bowdich, of Boston; engaged in waterworks and sewer construc- 
tion and landscape gardening; came to Cleveland in 1893, and in 
1894, entered the employ of the old park board, as chief engineer; 
during the time all the present public parks were built; in 1900, 
took up private practice of his profession; designed Ambler 
Heights, Euclid Heights, and the original group plan as adopted by 
the Chamber of Commerce; formerly member Massachusetts Na- 
tional Guard, Road Commissioner and Engineer in the Village of 
Brahanaw; member Country Club. Recreation: Golf. 

PRICE, John H.; attorney-at-law; born, Youngstown, July 31, 
l'«78; son of Morgan and Marsaret Davis Price; graduated, Raven 
High School, Younsfstown, 1897; Mt. Union College, A. B., 1900; 
Western Reserve Law School and Ohio State L^niversity Law 
School, 1902; married, Cleveland, .lune 3, 1903. Flora Staats; issue, 
John H. Price, Jr.; Newman Staats Price, and Emily Louise Price; 
Spanish- American War, Siege of Santiago, 1898; lieut. of engin- 



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eere; member Eepubliean Executive Committee, 1906-1912; ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1903; member law firm Price, Album & 
Daoust; chairman Republican party, Cuyahoga County, and City 
Committees, 1906-1907; special counsel to Atty. General, 1909- 
1910-1911; senior member Price, Alburn & Daoust; member Amer- 
ican Bar Ass'n; Ohio State Bar Ass'n; vice pres. Ohio State Bar 
Ass'n, 1910-1911; pres. Cleveland Newsboys Ass'n, 1908; College 
Fraternities: Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Theta Nu Epsilon; Shriner, 
Knight Templar, and 32nd degree Mason; Elks, Knights of Pyth- 
ias, Woodmen of the World, Society of the Army of Santiago; 
member Union, and City Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce; mem- 
ber Calvary Presbyterian Church. 

PEINCE, Joseph; cloak manufacturer; born, Hungary, 1862; 
son of Leopold and Eosalie Eeiff Prince; educated, Academy of 
Budapest, Hungary; married, Chicago, June 16, 1907, Mrs. Nellye 
Kauffman; one son, Joseph Prince, Jr., born April 6, 1908; came 
to this country in 1888; come to Cleveland, and started as sales- 
man on the road in 1889; started in business in New York, 1898; 
firm name same as present, Prince-Wolf Co.; moved entire plant 
to Cleveland in 1900; known for making the highest grade of 
merchandise (ladies cloaks and suits) ; pres. and treas. The Prince- 
Wolf Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Wholesale Board; mem- 
ber Excelsior Club; honorable business career; never in any 
difficulties, financial or otherwise. 

PRINTZ, Alexander; merchant; born, Kassa, Hungary, Nov. 29, 
1869; son of Moritz and Celia (Friedman) Printz; educated, pub- 
lic schools of Cleveland and preparatory school for Columbia 
School of Mines; married, Erie, Pa., Oct. 5, 1897, Almira Steele, 
of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at the age of 17, abandoned study, and 
became connected with D. Black & Co., as stock boy; then travel- 
ing salesman, until 1893, when he organized Printz-Biederman & 
Co., mnfrs. ladies' coats and suits; nnn incorporated in 1904, when 
he became pres.; employing over 1,000 people in the main factory 
in Cleveland; offices in New York, Chicago and St. Louis; one of 
the three concerns of its kind whose goods are trade-marked and 
advertised in the magazines lor the benefit of the buyer; Repub- 
lican; member Chamber of Commerce, Excelsior, and Oakwood 
Clubs. 

PBOBECK, A. O.; salesman; born, Cleveland, 1892; son of 
Philip Joseph and Anna Goeckley Probeck; educated, public schools 
and Miami Military Institute; married, Cleveland, Feb. 12, 1913; 
with the P. J. Probeck Co.; member Delta Sigma Nu. 

PROBECK, Henry J.; salesman; born, Cleveland, October 14, 
1861; son of John and Mary Heims Probeck; educated, Mayflower 
School, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, Nov. 19, 1889, Rose Franz; 
two sons; connected with Billings-Chapin Co., A. B. McNairy 
thirty years; belong to Commercial Travelers' Life and Accident 



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Ass'n, and Gennania Turn Society; fond of gymnasium work and 
bowling. 

PROBECK, P. J.; butchers' supplies; born, Cleveland, Feb. 23, 
1857; son of George L. and M. M. Deisinger Probeck; educated, 
Cleveland grammar schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 31, 1879, 
Miss E. E. Gaeckley; issue, three daughters, and two sons; has 
been in business twenty-three years; previous to that, traveling 
salesman seven years for Glick Bros., until firm retired from busi- 
ness; proprietor meat market for seven years, at 149 Franklin 
Ave.; pres. and treas. Probeck Co.; 32nd degree Mason, Scottish 
Rite; member Chamber of Commerce, and Lakewood Tennis Club. 

PBOSSER, Joseph P.; mechanical engineer; born, Austria, 
March 17, 1872; son of Louis and Katerina Franck; educated, pub- 
lic schools in Austria; married, Cleveland, Feb. 11, 1899, Mary B. 
Peterka; six children, five sons and one daughter; in 1888, started 
to serve as machinist for C. D. Bartlett & Co.; 1892 to 1895, with 
Globe Iron Co.; 1895 to 1898, served in U. S. Army (Co. F, 15th 
U. S. Infantry), where he studied mechanical engineering in his 
spare time; 1898 to 1902, served at Lord & Bowler's machine shop 
as mechanical engineer; 1902-1904, Macbeth Iron Co.; as erecting 
engineer; 1905-1906, The Kundtz Co.; master mechanic; 1906, 
Macbeth Iron Co., erecting engineer; 1907, incorporated The 
Prosser Engineering Co.; pres. and m.gr. The Prosser Engineering 
Co.; member of C. S. P. B. J., No. 15. 

PULUMAN, William J.; building contractor; born, Bronson, 
Mich., Aug. 21, 1861; son of Joseph E. and Sarah S. Parsons Pull- 
man; married, Bronson, Mich., Nov. 14, 1880, and Cleveland, O., 
Aug. 15, 1910, Flora C. Kraimer; issue, first wife, two daughters, 
Faye and Vera; issue, second marriage, one daughter, Madge; 
member Masons and Royal Arcanum, Sons of Veterans, and K. 
of P. 

PUN CHARD, Charles Plerpont, Jr.; landscape architect; born, 
Farmingham, Mass., June 3, 1885; son of Charles P. and Mattie 
Blanchard Punchard; educated, public schools, Farmingham, Mass., 
Brookline, Mass.; special student, dept. Landscape Architecture; 
graduate School of Applied Science, Harvard University, 1909- 
1911; member Troop A, First Squadron Cavalry, O. N. Q.; en- 
listed. May, 1912; previous to coming to Cleveland, was con- 
nected with various landscape architects in Boston, on both pri- 
vate and public work; partner Evans & Punchard; member Amer- 
ican Society Landscape Architecture. Recreations: Tennis and 
Riding. 

PUTNAM, P. R.; teaming contractor; born, Hinckley, O., June 
7, 1854; son of Russell and Deborah Moody Putnam; educated, 
Hinckley High School; married, Cleveland, Dec. 31, 1879, Mary A. 
Randolph; six children; member of Astria Court, No. 64, of the 



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Tribe of Ben Hur; also of Chapter No. 50, of the American Insur- 
ance Union, of Columbus, and the Grand Fraternity Club of 
Cleveland. 

QUAIL, Frank Adgate; Henderson, Quail & Siddall; lawyers; 
born, Canonsburg, Pa., June 18, 1865; educated, public schools, 
and graduated Washburn College, Topeka, Kas., 1887, degree 
A. B.; University of Michigan, 1889, degree LL. B.; began 
practice in Cleveland the same year; January, 1895, entered the 
firm of Henderson & Quail; firm changed to Henderson, Quail & 
Siddall, in 1904, G. B. Siddall being added; director in a number 
of corporations doing business in Northern Ohio; member Union, 
Euclid, University, and Colonial Clubs, and Chamber of Com- 
merce; Democrat. 

QUEISSES, Robert It.; pres. The Queisser-Bliss Co.; born. In 
dianapolis, Tnd., Aug. 9, 1866; son of Julius and Caroline J. Schlie 
bitz Queisser; educated, Indianapolis public and high schools 
married, Springfield, O., Nov. 24, 1887, Jessie L. Fried; two sons 
Charles Fried, and Eobert L., Jr.; regimental adjutant, 3rd Eegi 
ment Inf., O. N. G. ; battalion adjutant 7th Eegiment Inf., O. N 
G.; captain commissary, 5th Eegiment Inf., O. N. G.; aide-de 
cnmp on staff of Gov. Judson Harmon, four years; former pres 
Chamber of Commerce, Zanesville; spent early life in railroad 
work, leaving a responsible position in the traffic departm^ent of 
The Baltimore & Ohio E. E., to become mgr. of The Ohio Press 
Prick Co., of Zaresville, one of the subsidiary companies of the 
Hydraulic Press Brick Co., of St. Louis, Mo.; remained with that 
company five years, when with William H. Hunt and C. A. Bliss, or- 
ganized The Hunt-Queisser-Bliss Co., of Cleveland, and entered 
the brick and builders supply business; three years ago, acquired 
Mr. Hunt's interest in the Company, and the corporate name was 
changed to the Queisser-PJiss Co.; past pres. Brick Building Ass 'n 
of America; sec'y Ohio Face Brick Manufacturing Ass'n; sec'y- 
treas. The Fsee Brick Dealer's Ass'n of Am.erica; pres. and mgr. 
The Oueisser-Bliss Co.; Past Exalted Euler, Springfield, O., Lodge, 
No. 51, B. P. O. Elks of the U. S.; member Emanuel Lodge, No. 
505, F. & A. M.; McKinley Chapter. E. A. M., Past Grand Es- 
teemed Leading Knight, B. P. O. Elks of the U. S.; Past Com- 
ander, Coeur de Lion Commandery, Knights Templar, Past Vice 
Eegent Snark of Ohio Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo; director 
International Ass'n of Eotary Chibs; pres. Cleveland Eotary Club, 
1913; member Athletic, City Club, Masonic Club, Shaker Heights 
Country Club, Automobile Club, and member and director (1914) 
Chamber of Commerce, chairman membership committee of the 
Chamber; member Cleveland Builders' Exchange; associate mem- 
ber Cleveland Engineering Society. 

QUICK, Ivan T.; general insurance; born, Canada, April 5, 
1888; son of Oscar and Clara Clark Quick; educated, Lincoln, HI., 
Odd Fellows Orphan's Home, eighth grade; clerk in wholesale 



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grocery house in Aurora, 111., in 1904; 1905, came to Cleveland; 
formed partnership of Quick & Hunter, in Pittsburgh, in 1906, 
failed; was then in the employ of the East Ohio .Gas Co. for a 
year and a half; employed by The Paul E. Kroehle Co., mer- 
chandise brokers, in 1908; employed by The Manhattan Soap Co., 
of New York City, as salesman, in 1909; started in the insurance 
business in Cleveland, March, 1910, under J. J, Shipley; formed 
the partnership of Shipley & Quick, in 1911; entered the corpora- 
tion of Shipley & Quick Co., in 1912; pres. Shipley & Quick Co.; 
sec'y and director The Co-operative Investment Co.; director the 
Utility Sales Co.; member The Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

QUINIT, Edward Martin; cigar merchant; born, Townsend 
Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, June 8, 1863; son of Arthur 
and Julia Kyan Quinn; district school education; commercial 
training in retail cigar store of his brother, J. R. Quinn, Cleveland; 
married, Cleveland, June 3, 1903, Lottie May Fike; one son, John 
Ryan, born, March 7, 1904; formed partnership with F. R. Harris; 
firm name Quinn & Harris, cigar dealers, Hollenaen Hotel. Recre- 
ations: Hunting and Fishing. 

SABEB, Charles W'5 electrical engineer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 
24, 1880; married, Cleveland, July 3, 1902, Miss A. J. Davis; one 
daughter; sec'y and treas. The Reserve Electric Co.; member Ells- 
worth Lodge, No. 505, F. & A. M.; Hillman Chapter, No. 166; 
member Moose Club. 

RADDE, Carl A.; optometrist; born, Cleveland, Feb. 12, 1876; 
son of Albert W. and Josephine Hassmer Radde; educated, Cleve- 
land Grammar and High schools, and South Bend College of Op- 
tics; married, Cleveland, June 25, 1900, Amy A. Wilson; one 
daughter, Dorothy A. Radde; established jewelery and optical 
business in 1899; proprietor C. A. Radde; pres. Cleveland Optome- 
trical Society, during 1912-1913; member K. of P., L 0. O. F.; 
known in Cleveland musical circles as choral conductor; since 
1900, director of the Bach Society, Cleveland's oldest choral soci- 
ety; member Cleveland Advertising Club. 

RAINS, Fred H.; florist; born, Cleveland, April 22, 1876; son 
of John T. and Matilda Letchford Rains; educated, Cleveland 
public schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 24, 1892, Miss Minnie 
Bendi; one child; from 1893 to 1903, with the Ajax Mnfg. Co.; as 
machinist; entered the florist business in 1903, for himself; always 
in one location; owner of the business; member Disciple Church, 
and Florist Club. Recreation: Motoring. 

RANKIN", John; cement contractor; born, Glasgow, Scotland, 
Dee. 12, 1878; son of John and Elizabeth Wilson Rankin; edu- 
cated, Alexander School, Glasgow; married, Cleveland, O., March 
9, 1910, Margaret Brocklehurst; issue, Elizabeth Watson, Rebecca 
Margaret, John Ambler; gunrer S2nd Light Battery, Eoyal Horse 



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Artillery, 1897-1900; foreman on the concrete Breakwaters, Clyde, 
built by the Glasgow Harbor Trust; came to Canada in 1902, and 
filled important concrete contract at Indian Head, and elsewhere 
in Saskatchewan; came to Cleveland in 1907, and engaged in same 
business here; installed the only reinforced platform in the city. 
Recreations: Horsemanship and Automobiling. 

RATAJCZAK, Charles; florist; born, Cleveland, Nov. 1, ; 

son of Stevan and Anna Kaderska Eatajczak; educated, public 
schools, Cleveland; married, Feb. 22, 1912, to Miss Kosinska; one 
child; two years with Wolski, bought out his stock, and is running 
business in same location; pres. and treas. of the firm; floral dec- 
orator; member C. M. B. A., St. George, Wancolo Club, and Patrick 
All-Star Baseball Club. 

BATTLE, James William; mining engineer; born, Cuyahoga 
Falls, O., Sept. 6, 1852; son of William and Elizabeth Goodwin 
Gaylord Rattle; educated, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale Univers- 
ity; married, Cleveland, Aug. 9, 1877 Julia Cary, issue, William 
Rattle and Elizabeth Goodwin Rattle; Republican; mining en- 
gineer since 1874; examined properties in Russia, Alaska, South 
America, Cuba, New Foundland, Canada, and all states in the 
United States; opened office in Cleveland in 1874, as an analytical 
chemist and mining engineer; firm names Judson & Rattle, Rattle 
& Nye, W. J. Rattle & Sou; member Institute Mining Engineers, 
N. Y., and Chemist Club, N. Y.; 32nd degree Mason; member 
Union Club. 

RAWSON, La Qulnio; lawyer; born, Fremont, O., Oct. 28, 1871, 
son of Joseph L. and Margaret A. Gelpin Rawson; educated. High 
School, Fremont, O.; Cincinnati College, Law Department, 1892, 
degree Bachelor of Law; married, Fremont, O., Dec. 26, 1895, 
Beatrice Frances Floyd, of Cleveland; one daughter, Beatrice 
Rawson; member Ohio Legislature from Cuyahoga County, 1904- 
1905; served as Chairman of Committee on Insurance, and as 
member of Committee on Finance; sec'y and member executive 
committee The Cleveland Life Insurance Co.; member Ohio State 
Bar Ass'n and National Geography Society; member Masonic 
Fraternity, New England Society, Society of Mayflower Descend- 
ants; member Athletic Club, Chamber of Commerce, and Chamber 
of Industry, Vestryman Church of the Ascension (Protestant Epis- 
copal), Lakewood, O.; member executive board of the Municipal 
Association of Cleveland. 

REED, Charles Shadrack; lawyer; born. North Fairfield, O., Sept. 
17, 1862; son of David H. and Caroline Long Reed; attended school 
at Oberlin College, and Delaware; Law Course at University of 
Michigan; married, Fredonia, Kas., Nov. 16, 1887, Nellie B. Baugh- 
man; issue, three sons and two daughters; prosecuting attorney of 
Wilson County, Kas., three terms; judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas, Ist Sub-division of 4th Judicial District of Ohio, from Sep- 



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tember 1899, to September, 1911; elected three times; served twice 
under appointment of Gov. Bushuell; from law school went West 
to Fredonia, Kas., practiced law there until 1897; moved to San- 
dusky, O., April, 1897; practiced law until September, 1899, when 
appointed Common Pleas Judge by Gov. Bushnell, elected three 
times, term would have expired Feb. 9, 1913; resigned, came to 
Cleveland, formed partnership with J. G. Eussel and G. H. Eiehel- 
berger, under firm name of Keed, Russell & Eichelberger; Mr. Eus- 
sell retired a year ago; the firm is now Reed & Eichelberger; mem- 
ber Colonial, and Athletic Clubs. 

BEHOB, Anton Karl; cement contractor; born, Bohemia, Dec. 7, 
1871; son of Joseph and Frances Klika Eehor; public school edu- 
cation; married. May 3, 1904, Anna Goll; issue, Anton K. Jr., 
Anna, and Alfred; came to Cleveland in 1899; started as cement 
worker, and in 1902, went into business for himself; in 1907, laid 
for City of Cleveland, 105,000 square feet of cement work; does 
most of brewery contracting, floors and walks; member Sokol 
CTurners), Eagles; member Marblehead Hunting and Fishing Club. 
Recreation: Hunting. 

EEICHEET, J. P.; pres. and gen. mgr.; born, Cleveland, Sept. 
14, 1877; son of J. P. and Lena Eichorn Reiehert; educated, Cleve- 
land public and high schools; married, Cleveland, Oct. 14, 1903, 
Martha Augusta Withycombe; issue, two sons, engineers Ohio Na- 
tional Guards; for ten years, bookkeeper Wholesale Dept., William 
Taylor Sons & Co.; two years sec'y and treas. The Ohio Lead 
Smelting Co.; entered the employ of J. M. & L. A. Osborn Co., 
March 4, 1903; made sec'y and treas., Jan. 1, 1904, and pres. and 
gen. mgr., at Mr. Osborn 's death, July 6, 1912; member St, Paul's 
Episcopal Church, East Cleveland; pres. Harmony Club. Recrea- 
tions: Motoring, Tennis and Y, M. C. A. Enthusiasm. 

EEID, Albert T.; coal dealer; born, Cleveland, April 27, 1875; 
son of Joseph J. and Rebecca Reid; educated, Cleveland grammar 
schools; married, Cleveland, Jan. 4, 1899; Nellie S. Rane; three 
children; pres. and treas. The Fronek-Reid Coal Co. 

BEIMAN, Joseph; roofer; born, Germany, Oct. 22, 1867; edu- 
cated in the public schools of Germany; married, Germany, 1886, 
Anna Kuehl; six children; lumber business four years; with Elab- 
orated Roofing Co. 

BEITZ, Mathew; tailor; born, Hungary, Feb. 23, 1878; married, 
Cleveland, Oct. 9, 1907, Mamie Keal, one child; started in business 
eleven years ago with practically no capital; business grew, and 
in two years became associated with Phil. Langguth, as firm of 
Reitz & Langguth; firm was dissolved last July; since then he 
has incorporated The Reitz Tailoring Co.; pres. of the firm, and 
W. S. Raeder, sec'y and treas.; in new location, 2995 W. 25th St., 
but a short time, but the business is prospering. 



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RHODES, Eobert Eussell; born, Cleveland, Dee. 17, 1845; son of 
Daniel and Sophia L. Russell Rhodes; educated, Cleveland public 
schools; married, Cleveland, Sept. 30, 1868, Kate Newell Rhodes; 
issue, Fannie, Sophia, and William C. Rhodes (the latter two 
deceased); pres. United States Coal Co., Peoples Savings Bank Co.; 
director Cleveland Storage Co., Great Lakes Towing Co., National 
Commercial Bank; member Union, Country, and Clifton Clubs. 

RICE, Eranioiis; bottler; born, Harmony, Pa., Aug. 13, 1852; son 
of Samuel and Mathilda Heckert Rice; public school education; 
married, Cleveland, 1874, Mary B. Blank; issue, nine children; 
vice pres. and director The Lorain St. Savings Bank; see'y and 
treas. The Cleveland Metal Stamping Co.; pres. and treas. The 
Forest City Laundry Co., and The Rice Bottling Co.; director 
The Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Co.; member Knights of 
Pythias, 

RICHARDS, Franklin B.; iron merchant; born, North Andover, 
Mass., Nov. 12, 1862; son of Albert D. and Mary Preston Richards; 
educated, grammar and high school, Somerville, Mass.; Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., 1884, degree S. B.; 
married, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 8, 1886, Caroline A. Dimick; two 
daughters, Katherine E., and Dorothy; chemist Stafford Mining 
Co., North Stafford, Vt.; 1885, asst. chemist, Joliet Steel Works: 
chemist Bonner Hill Iron & Coal Co., Youngstown, 0., 1886; supt. 
same Company, 1888; msr. Ore Sales, Tod, Stambaugh & Co.. 
Cleveland; mgr. Buena Vista Iron Co., Virginia, 1890-1893; Ore 
Dept., M. A. Hanna Co.; 1893; mgr. Pig Iron and Ore Dept., 1894; 
vice pres. and director Detroit Iron & Steel Co.; treas. and direc- 
tor United Iron & Steel Co.; director in the following companies: 
Pennsylvania Iron & Coal Co., Bonner Iron & Coke Co., Pittsburgh 
Ore Co., Cuyahoga Coal Co., Milwaukee Coke & Gas Co.; member 
American Institute of Mining Engineers and American Iron & Steel 
Institute; member Union, Country, Mayfield, Hermit, and Euclid 
Clubs, Cleveland; Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, Biiffalo Club, Buffalo, 
N. Y., Detroit Club, Detroit, Mich., University and Engineers 
Clubs, New York. Fond of Golf, Tennis and Yachting. 

RICHARDS, Thos. B.; real estate broker; born, Nova, 0., Sept. 
10, 1869; son of Albert N. and Clarioco Poag Richards; married, 
Nova, April 3, 1889, Carrie B. Bruce; member Phoenix Lodge, I. 
U. O. F., No. 233, and Protected Home Circle, No. 32, Lorain, O. 
Recreation: Bowling. 

RICHARDSON, Edward A.; architect and engineer; born, Cleve- 
land, O., Jan. 28, 1874; son of John N. and Martha Wood Richard- 
son; educated, Cleveland grade schools and High School (W. H. S.); 
Spencerian Business College, Case School of Applied Science; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Dec. 6, 1897, Esther F. Dillow; and Oct. 26, 1911, 
Maude H. Buchanan; one daughter. Rose K. Richardson, born June 
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to 1900; 1st Lieut. Co. A, 1st Battery of Engineers, O. N. G., 1900 
to 1905; sr. lieut. Ohio Naval Militia, 1909, to present time; now 
executive officer, U. S. S. "Dorothea"; with the exception of two 
years with the City Engineer's ofiice, has practiced architecture 
and engineering, in which business he is at present; has done con- 
siderable coal examination work, and spent one year in metallifer- 
ous mining in the West; in architecture and engineering, has de- 
signed a number of Cleveland's largest industrial plants; member 
American Institute of Architects, Cleveland Chapter, R. I. A., Na- 
tional Fire Protective Association (associate), Masonic bodies, 
Ellsworth Blue Lodge, Hillman Chapter, No. 36, Cleveland Council, 
Oriental Commandery, Al Koran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Eecre- 
ations: Yachting, Tennis and Fencing. 

RICHMOND, Charles T.; manufacturer; born, Johnsville, N. Y., 
June 13, 1856; son of Theodore and Caroline Baucus Richmond; 
educated, Greylock Institute, South Williamstown, Mass., and 
Yale '78, S. Ph. B.; married, Fremont, O., Jan. 28, 1891, Mrs. 
Addie G. Noble; after graduating, became deputy collector Internal 
Revenue, 10th District of Massachusetts (three years); then 
founded Richmond Carbon Co., North Adams, Mass. (four years) ; 
then became pres. Thomson-Houston Carbon Co., at Fremont, O., 
(five years); since 1893, with National Carbon Co., Cleveland 
(twenty years); consulting engineer and asst. sec'y National Car- 
bon Co.; member Delta Psi Fraternity; member Chamber of Com- 
merce, Athletic Club, Lakewood Yacht Club, Cleveland Rotary and 
Tippecanoe Clubs. 

RICKEY, Harry Norris; newspaper man; born, Aug. 12, 1871, 
Cincinnati, O., son of John M. and Marinda Paine Rickey; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools; married, 1899, Virginia Nelson 
Odor, Cleveland; three children; twenty-five years in newspaper 
business, as reporter, editor and publisher; vice pres. Scripps Pub. 
Co.; pres. and trustee Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n; director Des 
Moines News Co.; member Cleveland Athletic Club. 

RICKS, Charles A.; sec'y and treas. Kuhlman Car Co.; born, 
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 14, 1868; son of Augustus J. and Emma 
Maxwell Atwater Ricks; educated, Kenyon Military Academy, and 
Kenyon College; married, Oct. 21, 1897, at Detroit. Mich., Miss 
Margaret Trowbridge; business career, 1888 clerk First National 
Bank, Massillon, O., sec'y and treas. Massillon Loan Ass'n; came 
to Cleveland in 1890, and became auditor and traveling salesman 
for the Standard Oil Co.; in 1896, appointed mgr. of the Cleveland 
station; in 1900, organized the G. C. Kuhlman Car Co., sec'y and 
treas., builds electric and steam railway cars, turning out an aver- 
age of 600 cars a year, employ 700 men; Republican; Episcopalian; 
Psi Upsilon Iota, member Military Order, Loyal Legion; Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Union, and Country Clubs. Recreations: Golf, 
and Fishing. 



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EIDER, Edwin D.; milk dealer; born, Navarre, O., Nov. 2, 1884; 
son of Daniel W. and Isabelle Exline Eider; educated at the Ohio 
Soldiers and Sailors Military School, at Xenia, O.; discharged, 
June 5, 1901, second sargt.; married, East Bangor, Pa., June 12, 
1907, Carrie M. Williams; issue, two daughters, Isabelle and Edith; 
has been in the dairy business in Cleveland twelve years; four 
years was associated with The Flood-Pratt Dairy Co.; has been 
conducting The Model Dairy for eight years; stockholder The 
Doan Savings & Loan Co.; member of Mayflower Lodge, No. 679, 
I. O. O. F. 

BIDEB, Eugene; real estate; born, Donegal, Pa., Oct. 13, 1877; 
son of William H. and Mary Millhoff Eider, D. D.; educated, Mt. 
Union College, and Western Eeserve University; graduated, 1900, 
with degree of A. B., and the Handy philosophical prize; married, 
Cleveland, June 17, 1903, Edith A. Wheaton; issue, two children, 
before entering the real estate business, was for several years pur- 
chasing agt. for The P. B. Stearns Co.; treas. American Portable 
Seating Co.; one of the incorporators of The Windimere Methodist 
Episcopal Church; member Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Mt, Union 
Alumni Ass'n; member Chamber of Commerce, and Cleveland Eeal 
Estate Board. 

BIG-0, Henri S.; chef, Hollenden Hotel; born, Vienna, Austria, 
Feb. 9, 1882; son of Simon and Hedwig Filler Eigo; educated in 
public schools in Vienna; at the age of 14, went to Paris, and 
served two years' apprenticeship in cooking masters business; 
studied four years in London; married, Feb. 22, 1906, Miss Kath- 
erine O'Shea; while in London, chef at the Mount Ephraim Hotel, 
and for Lord Lambington, one year; came to New York, and worked 
in Cafe Martin for one year; went to Florida; in the Eoyal Poin- 
ciona Hotel, at Palm Beach; then in West Virginia for six months; 
returned to Vienna for a few months; came to Cleveland, soon 
after returned to America; chef of Hollenden Grill Room for eight 
months; then made chef of the general dining room; has 95 people 
under his employ, 35 of whom are cooks; member Biglow Lodge, 
No. 54, A. F. & A. M., and a Chapter Mason. Kecreation: Horse- 
back Eiding. 

BOACH, P. H.; florist; born, Cleveland, Feb. 27, 1866; son of 
Patrick and Elizabeth Harris Eoach; educated, Cleveland Paroch- 
ial school; two years with the Malleable Iron Works; janitor St. 
Edwards Church, for ten years; entered florist business, and has 
been in one location ever since starting; pres. and treas. of the 
company. 

BOBB, Hunter; physician; born at Burlington, N. J., 1863; son 
of Thomas and Caroline (Woolman) Eobb; educated, Episcopal 
Academy, Philadelphia, Burlington (N. J.) College; M. D., Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, 1884; married Isabel Adams Hampton, of 
Welland, Ont., 1894; resident physician, Presbyterian and Episco- 



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pal hospital, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; aset. surgeon, Kensington 
Hospital for Women, 1888-1889; associate in gynecology, Johns 
Hopkins University and Hospital, 1889-1894; in practice at Cleve- 
land since 1894; prof, gynecology, Western Reserve University; 
visiting gynecologist, Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; member Amer- 
ican Gynecological Society, Obstetric and Gynecological Society of 
Paris; Episcopalian; Eepubiican. Clubs: Union, University. 
Author: Aseptic Surgical Technique, 1894; Contributor to Hare's 
System of Therapeutics, 1891; Keating & Coe's Gynecology, 1894; 
Jewett's System of Obstetrics, 1900; Reed's Gynecology, 1901. 
Has written numerous papers on surgical technique and diseases of 
women. 

BOBEBTS, Clarence J.; district mgr. Toledo Scale Co.; born, 
Monroe, Mich., April 25, 1863; high school education; married, 
Cleveland, Sept. 13, 1887, Nativa Brillon; nine children; district 
mgr. Toledo Scale Co., nine years; member Knight of Columbus, 
Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Rotarian Club, B. P. 
O. E., and C. M. B. A. 

ROBERTSON, Gunder; cement contractor; born, Denmark, 
March 7, ; son of Robert Gunderson and Marie Laursun Robert- 
son; educated, Denmark; married, Painesville, 0., June 1, 1890, 
Annie M. Robertson; issue, eight children. 

ROBY, James Justus; coal operator, born, Sherodsville, O., May 
16, 1865; son of David and Sarah Justus Roby; common school 
education in Carroll County, Ohio, schools, and International Cor- 
respondence Schools, of Scranton, Pa.; married, Sherodsville, May 
30, 1887, Delia M. Henderson; two children, deceased; 1884 to 
1900, ao-t. Wheeling & Lake Erie R. R.; 1895 to 1900, supt. Wheel- 
ing, Lake Erie & Pittsburgh Coal Co.; 1900-1911, vice pres. Roby 
Coal Co.; from 1912, efficiency engineer (coal mining operations); 
1913, pres. and director The Short Creek Coal Co.; member Ohio 
Mining Commission under Gov. Harris; member The Cleveland En- 
gineering Society; member Forest City Lodge, No. 368, F. A. M., 
Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, R. A. M., Holyrood Commandery, No. 
32, K. T., Lake Erie Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32nd degree, Al Koran 
Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., Al Sirat Grotto, No. 17, M. O. V. P. F. 
R., Cleveland Council, No. 36, R. & S. M., B. P. O. E., No. 18, 
Cleveland; member Union, and Athletic Clubs and Chamber of 
Commerce. 

ROCKEFELLER, Frank; capitalist; born at Richford, Tioga 
County, N. Y., in 1845, where he lived for several years, until his 
father and brothers moved to Cleveland; for several years, he 
followed various occupations, until he became interested with his 
brother, John D. Rockefeller, in the oil business, becoming one of 
the principal promoters of the Standard Oil Co.; retired from 
active business interests in 1895; he has a summer home at Wycliffe, 
C, and a big ranch in Kansas; member Union, Columbia and Road- 
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ROCKEFELLER, John Davison; capitalist; born, Eiehford, N. 
T., July 8, 1839; son of William Avery and Eliza (Davison) Rocke- 
feller; brother of William R. (q. v.); moved to Cleveland, O., 1853; 
public seiiool education; married Laura C. Spelman, of Cleveland, 
Sept. 8, 1864; father of John Davison, Jr., and Edith Rockefeller 
McCormick (both q. v.); was clerk in forwarding and commission 
house at 19, partner in firm of Clark & Rockefeller, commission 
merchants; firm became Andrews, Clark & Co., and engaged in 
oil business; in 1865, the firm, then William Rockefeller & Co., 
built Standard Oil Works, Cleveland; this was consolidated with 
others in Standard Oil Co., 1870; other interests were later ac- 
quired and the Standard Oil Trust was formed, 1882, but dis- 
solved, 1892; the various Standard Oil companies being operated 
separately, with Mr. Rockefeller at the head of the entire business, 
until Dec. 4, 1911, when he retired; he has given a total of 
$43,000,000 to the General Education Board, of which he gave 
$32,000,000 at one time, February, 1907; also over $23,000,000 to 
University of Chicago; a $100,000 building, 3,000 vols, on Greek 
art and literature, and money donations to Vassar; $1,375,000 to 
Barnard College; $250,000 to American Baptist Missionary Union 
and Home Missionary Society; $1,000,000 to Yale, 1905; endowed 
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, with 
$1,825,000; Southern Education Fund, $1,126,000; Harvard, $1,000- 
000, Teachers College, $500,000, and numerous other donations to 
colleges, churches, missions, etc., making a total of more than 
$85,000,000. 

ROCKWELL, Samuel; civil engineer; born, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
Feb. 20, 1847; son of William and Susan Lawrence Prince Rock- 
well; educated, Yale College and Shefiield Scientific School, 1873; 
Ph. B.; married, St. Joseph, Mo., June 7, 1881, Cordelia Ann Geiger; 
issue, four sons and one daughter; business career, 1873-1877, resi- 
dent engineer D. L. & W. R. R., Hoboken, N. J.; built tunnel 
through Bergen Hill and other changes of line and separation of 
grade Avork; 1877-1881, contractor; 1881-1882, asst. city engineer, 
Kansas City, Mo.; 1882-1884, principal asst. engineer, St. Paul 
Water Works; 1884-1887, locating and constructing engineer, St. 
Paul & M. & M. R. R.; 1887-1890^, chief engineer. Eastern Minne- 
sota Ry. Co.; 1890, chief engineer, extension of A. T. & S. F. R. R. 
to San Francisco; 1891, chief engineer, Duluth & Winnipeg R. R.; 
1891-1899, engineer M. S. Division, L. S. & M. S. R. R., at Toledo; 
1899-1904, principal asst. engineer, L. S. & M. S. R. R. at Cleve- 
land; 1904-1905, asst. chief engineer, L. S. & M. S. R. R, Co.; 
1905-1913, consulting engineer, L. S. & M. S. R. R., Cleveland, O.; 
member American Society of Civil Engineers, and American Rail- 
way Engineerng Ass'n; Mason; member Athletic, and Mayfield 
Clubs. Recreations: Hunting and Fishing. 

RODWAY, A. N.; U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue; born, 
Cleveland, March 11, 1877; son of Edward and Jane Jones Rodway; 
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1911, Mildred L. Taylor; chairman Republican Exedutive Com- 
mittee of Cuyahoga County, during past four years; at present, 
member of Republican State Committee from the 2l8t Congress- 
ional District; director National Discount Co.; member Tippecanoe, 
and Western Reserve Clubs, Recreations: Baseball and Fishing. 

ROEHL, John; paving contractor; born, Cleveland, Sept. 22, 
1875; son of Frederick and Carolina Behrend Roehl; educated, 
Cleveland public schools, and Edmiston Business College; married, 
Cleveland, Dec. 31, 1896, Emma Durian; became a partner in Roehl 
Bros. Paving Co., in 1896; in the last sixteen years, the company 
has done a great deal of the brick paving for the city; trustee The 
Roehl Realty Co.; member Chamber of Industry, and Tuxedo Club. 

ROGERS, James Hotchkiss; pianist, organist; born, Fair 
Haven, Conn., Feb. 7, 1857; son of Martin L. and Harriet (Hotch- 
kiss) Rogers; educated. Lake Forest, 111.; studied music, Berlin 
and Paris, 1875-1880; married Alice Abigail Hall, of Indianapolis, 
Oct. 20, 1891; composer of about 150 compositions, including 
songs, piano pieces, anthems and part songs; two cantatas: "The 
Man of Nazareth"; "The New Life"; as well as part songs and 
music for organ and violin. 

ROGERS, George M.; Plain Dealer; born, Ashtabula, Dec. 4, 
1879; son of Judson and Florence Elizabeth Butts Rogers; edu- 
cated, Western Reserve University; married, Cleveland, April 23, 
1903, Florence F. Stone; issue, Martha Stone Rogers, born April 
13, 1904, Joan Rogers, born June 3, 1909, and Herbert Stone Rogers, 
born Aug. 7, 1912; has been on the Plain Dealer ever since he fin- 
ished College; business mgr. The Cleveland Plain Dealer; member 
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (Beta Phi Chapter); W. R. U.; 
member Hermit, Athletic, City, and Cleveland Advertising Clubs. 

ROGERS, William Banks; clergyman; born at Cincinnati, Dec. 
7, 1857; son of Joseph Hill and Mary Rose (Mcllvain) Rogers; 
academic and collegiate course St. Xavier's College, 1869-1875; St. 
Stanislaus Seminary, Normal, Florissant, Mo., 1875-1879, Wood- 
stock College, Maryland, philosophy, science, 1879-1881; Louvain, 
Belgium, metaphysics, ethics, 1881-1882; Woodstock College, theol- 
ogy, 1887-1891; taught English and classics, St. Ignatius College, 
Chicago, 1882-1884; St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, 1884-1887; 
ordained Roman Catholic priest, 1890; perfect studies, St. Xavier's 
College, Cincinnati, 1891-1892, Marquette College, Milwaukee, 1893- 
1895, St. Louis University, 1896-1898; pres. Marquette College, 
1898-1900, St. Louis University, 1900-1908; resigned February, 1908, 
on account of ill health; in 1903, secured Marion-Sims-Beaumont 
College of Medicine, St. Louis, as medical department, St. Louis 
University. 

ROHBOCK, William L.; chief engineer, W. & L. E. R. R. Co.; 

born, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 7, 1873; son of Henry and Mary Roh- 
bock; educated, Pittsburgh public and high schools; married, Pitts- 

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burgh, Pa., Oct. 15, 1901, Mary Newton Nuttall; three chil- 
dren; finished school in 1888; eight years various manufacturing, 
concerns, including printing and lithographing companies in and 
around Pittsburgh, draftsman, Westinghouse Electric Mnfg. Co.; 
draftsman and engineer Philadelphia Co., and engineer Pittsburgh 
R. R. Co., asst. engineer, Wabash Lines, east of Toledo; asst, to 
Chief engineer of The W. & L. E. R. R.; in July, 1912, made act- 
ing chief engineer of the W. & L. E. R. R., and chief engineer, 
Dee. 1, 1912; member Cleveland Engineering Society. 

EOEHEIMEU, Louis; decorator and designer; born, Cleveland, 
Sept. 12, 1872; son of Jack and Minnie I. Glauer Rorheimer; edu- 
cated at Munch and Paris Art Academy; married, Cleveland, Dec. 
7, 1893, Edith B. Joseph; two children; pres. Rorheimer-Brooks 
Studio; director Statler Hotel; Stearn Advertising Co.; teacher 
The Cleveland School of Art; member the Rowfant, Oakwood, and 
Cleveland Art Clubs. 

ROSE, William Ganson; writer; born, Cleveland, Oct. 29, 1878; 
son of William Russell and Eliza E. (Ganson) Rose; (A. B. Adel- 
bert College, W. R. U., 1901); Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1902-1907, 
sec'y Cleveland convention, N. E. A., 1908; joint taxation com- 
mittee, Ohio State Board of Commerce, and Cleveland Chamber of 
Commerce, 1908; mgr. Cleveland Industrial Exposition, 1910; mgr. 
Newark Industrial Exposition, 1912; sec'y Cleveland Auditorium 
Committee, since 1912; vice pres. National Safety Device Co.; 
membfr American Press Humorists, Chamber of Commerce, Delta 
Tau Delta, Cleveland Advertising, Rotary, Cleveland Athletic 
Clubs, Cleveland; Quest Club, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Author "Comic 
History of Cleveland," "Cleveland Industries," "The Ginger 
Cure," "Putting Marshallville on the Map," "Waking Up Bol- 
ton," "Success in Business," "The Rousing of Parkside." 

EOSENBERG, W. L.; orginator and mgr. of the Windsor Insti- 
tute for Backward Children; born, Westphalen, Jan. 10, 1850; son 
of Henry Rosenberg; educated in common schools and University 
of Berlin; married. New York, 1884, Marie Vessie Rosenberg; one 
son. Dr. Percy Rosenberg, and one daughter, Mrs. ElsiC Werley; 
taught Latin and German for two years in Boston; then worked 
for Chicago, New Yori. and Cincinnati newspapers; in 1897-1899, 
local editor of the Waechter-Anzeiger; then returned to his pro- 
fession as teacher of backward children; is a Social-Democrat; for 
eight years was teacher of Latin and Greek in Germany; left on 
account of political persecution; owner and mgr. The Windsor In- 
stitute; presiding officer of the Literary Section of Germania Vor- 
waerts Turn Verein. 

ROSENVASSER, Herman B.; dentist; born, Cleveland, Aug. 
16, 1878; son of Marcus and Ida Rosenvasser; D. D. S., Western 
Reserve Dental College; member Cleveland Dental Society, North- 
ern Ohio Dental Society, Ohio State Dental Society, Psi Omega 
(dental). Excelsior Club, B. P. O. E. 



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BOTE, Robert Ogden; railway engineering; born, Geneva, O., 
March 22, 1871; son of R. 0. and Orra A. Blakeslee Rote; edu- 
cated, Geneva Normal School, 1889; married, Ashtabula, June 6, 
1893, Harriet Louise Lowe; one daughter, Charlotte Louise Hard- 
way; entered service of Michigan Central R. R. in 1889, after 
three years, came to L. S. & M. S. R. R., and has been with the 
company since that time; now asst. chief engineer; member The 
American Railway Engineering Ass 'n and The Cleveland Engin- 
eering Society; member Cleveland Tennis Club, and Euclid, and 
Shaker Heights Country Clubs. 

ROTH, Aloysins L.; milk and cream; born, Cleveland, Aug. 19, 
1889; son of Alois and Anna Thomas Roth; graduated from St. 
Stephens, Commercial class, June 24, 1906; member of the C. 
M. B. A., branch No. 99. Recreation: Baseball, managed the 
Seewords, of the D. R. K. League, for two years. 

ROTHENBERG, William; lawyer; born, Cleveland, Aug. 19, 
1883; son of Leopold and Ella Feniger Rothenberg; educated, 
Central High School, Cleveland, 1897-1901; Harvard College, 1901- 
1904, A. B., Cleveland Law School, LL. B., 1904-1907; director The 
McClure Co., The Ohio Art Embroidery Co., The Miller Cloak Co., 
The Victor Electric & Stamping Co.; member Cleveland Council of 
Sociology, Cleveland Bar Ass'n, Commercial Law Ass 'n of Amer- 
ica; member Chamber of Commerce, the Excelsior, Athletic, and 
Rotary Clubs. 

ROUEICEK, Herman; masseur and chiropodist; born, Prague, 
Austria, May 2, 1855; son of Adelbert and Fanny Roubicek; Ger- 
man public schools of Prague, College of Hydro-Therapeutics of 
Sulz, Stangan, near Vienna; expert in Professor Wintermiss' method; 
married, Prague, May 7, 1882, Miss Anna Roubitschck; two sons, 
Leo and Adelbert; drill-master and file leader in the 24th Sharp- 
shooters; member of "Maximilian Club," in Prague, a restricted 
and honorary military association; citizen of Cleveland since 1904; 
worked at profession since leaving the army; came to this country 
for a visit and liked it so well, concluded to stay; his son, Adel- 
bert, is in the same profession; won first prize medal for marks- 
manship in the army. 

RUDD, George A.; sec 'y and treas. the Chandler & Rudd Co.; 
born, Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1852; educated in the Cleveland public 
schools, and started as bookkeeper with the Chandler & Rudd Co. 
in 1870; when the firm was incorporated, in 1889, was made sec 'y 
and treas.; member Chamber of Commerce; pres. Retail Merchants' 
Board of Cleveland; Republican; member East End Baptist Church. 

RUDD, William Cullen; grocer; born, Cleveland, July 22, 1845; 
son of Charles and Esther Lacey Rudd; educated in Cleveland 
schools; married. Cleveland, Oct. 17, 1872, Mary Rockefeller; two 
children living, Frank H., and Mrs. Edward A. Roberts; pres. the 
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BUHL, James B.; lawyer; born near Lisbon, Ohio, on a farm; 
taught, prepared for college, at Lisbon High School, and taught in 
rural schools; graduated from Ohio Northern University, B. S., 
1888, and LL. B., 1891 (in cursu); later took M. Sc. and L. L. M. 
(pro merito); supt. schools, MeComb, O., 1888-1889; instructor at 
Ohio Northern IJniversity, 1889-1891; admitted to the Ohio Bar 
in 1889, U. S. Courts in 1894, and U. S. Supreme Court, 1901; prac- 
ticed law in Cleveland since 1891; member, for five years, State 
board of examiners for admission to the bar; Knight Templar, 32nd 
degree Mason, Past Master, Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, F. & A. 
M.; first master Meridian Lodge, No. 610; Past High Priest, Cleve- 
land Chapter, No. 148, R. A. M.; Eminent Commander Holyrood 
Commandery, No. 32, K. T. and Sovereign Prince Bahurim Council, 
16th degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Cleveland; 
Republican; Chamber of Commerce. 

RUPLE, Franklin H.; merchant and teaming contractor; born, 
Euclid Township, Ohio, May 19, 1848; son of Cyrus and Julia 
Hitchcock Ruple, educated in schools of Euclid; married, Euclid, 
O., Feb. 12, 1871; Mary C. Seaber; issue, five children, three living; 
served as councilman of Village of Collinwood for six years, and 
marshall of the village for two years; in 1874, started in express 
business between Collinwood and Cleveland; continued this until 
February, 1883, then opened livery and boarding stable; following 
year, started a hotel in connection with his livery business; con- 
tinued this business for over three years; then went into the coal 
and teaming business; has served as trustee of Collinwood Congre- 
gational Church for about eight years; charter member of Knights 
of Pythias, Lakeside Lodge, No. 367; member Men's Club, Collin- 
wood Congregational Church. 

RUPP, Edward; baker; born, Germany, May 11, 1869; son of 
Adam and Barbara Damn Rupp; educated, public schools; married, 
Cleveland, April, 1898, Emma Mayer; has been in business twelve 
years; proprietor Lakewood Bakery. Recreation: Motoring. 

RUTHERFORD, George A.; general builder and contractor; 
born, Cleveland, Sept. 18, 1871; son of Mark and Isabella Cossar 
Rutherford; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleve- 
land, Oct. 3, 1894, Daisy Day; issue, two children; started contract- 
ing business, 1896, incorporated The Geo. A. Rutherford Co.; in 
1903, pres. the company; pres. The Sand & Building Co.; pres. The 
Cleveland Builders Exchange; 2nd vice pres. The Cleveland Real 
Estate Board; member Iris Lodge, Masonic, Cleveland Chamber of 
Commerce; member Athletic, Automobile and Advertising Clubs. 

SAFFOLD, Starke Selbert; insurance; born, Mobile, Ala., March 
15, 1852; son of Judge Milton J. and Martha Harrison Saffold; 
educated by private instructor, Graylock and Emerson Institutes; 
married, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 1, 1881, Harriet "Webb; issue, one 
daughter, Mrs. Wm. C. Young, of Texas, and one son, J. Webb 
Saffold, Cleveland; has occupied official position in eight or ten 



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professional and business concerns, from secretary to president; 
from which since retired; gen. agt., since 1886, Provident Life & 
Trust Co.; pres. Acme Eng. & Stamps Co.; director Chippewa Lake 
Co.; Los Seros Copper Co.; Gold Bug Mining Co.; Ohio Lemon Co.; 
mgr. Union Syndicate; member Cleveland Association Life Under- 
writers; member Chamber of Commerce; vestryman Church of 
Epiphanv, Woodward Lodge, No. 508, F. & A. M., Cleveland 
Chapter," No. 148, R. A. M., Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T.; 
member Athletic, Mayfield Country, Cleveland Gun, and La Carp 
Duck Clubs. 

SALEN, Charles P.; born, Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 5, 1860; came 
to Cleveland, 1867, educated, public schools and Concordia College; 
with West Side Sentinel and other papers 1878-1881; city clerk, 
1883 and 1887-1880; returned to newspaper work, and in 1890, ap- 
pointed sec'y Board of Elections; served until 1893; resigned, and 
entered the pork-packing business until 1899, when appointed city 
auditor; in 1901, appointed director of public works; served until 
1903; opened the parks to the people; elected county clerk, 1902; 
first Democrat ever elected to this oflace; re-elected in 1905; in 
1904, elected delegate-at-large to National Democratic Convention; 
interested in a number of corporations and winter and summer 
sports. 

SAMMAN, Peter; general contractor; born, Germany, July 30, 
1866; son of Peter and Anna Kroeger Samman; public school and 
business college education; married, Cleveland, June 24, 1890, 
Augusta Hoyer; issue, four children; a firm believer in Progressive 
principles, and a member of the Progressive Party; pres. Alliance 
Brewing Co.; Advance Construction Co.; director American Portable 
Seating Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Forest City Lodge, 
Free Accepted Masons, Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 
Cleveland Council Royal Select Masters, Holyrood Commandery, 
K. T., Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shriners; member Locust Point 
Shooting Club. Recreations: Hunting and Fishing. 

SANDEES, Clarence E.; lawyer; born, Jacksonville, 111., June 18, 
1867; son of William and Cornelia R. Smith Sanders; educated, 
Illinois College, 1889, A. B., Harvard University, 1896, LL. B.; 
associated with law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, since 
October, 1896; became member of the firm in July, 1911; member 
Union, Country, University, and East End Tennis Clubs. Recrea- 
tions: Tennis and Golf. 

SANDERS, William Brownell; lawyer; born, Cleveland, O., Sept., 
1854; son of William D. and Cornelia R. (Smith) Sanders; A. B., 
Illinois College, 1873, A. M., LL. B., Albany Law School, 1875; 
married Annie E, Otis, of Cleveland, April 30, 1884; Judge Court 
of Common Pleas, 1888-1890; resigned; member firm Squire, San- 
ders & Dempsey, Cleveland, since 1890; vice pres. Society for Sav- 
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land Stone Co., Kelly Island Lime Co., etc. Clubs: Union, Uni- 
versity, Tavern, Country, Roadside (Cleveland), Mayfield Country, 
University, and Lawyers' (New York). 

SANFOED, Henry Lindsay; surgeon; born, Boston, Mass., April 
7, 1873; son of Henry Dean and Ellen Lindsay Sanford; educated, 
Harvard University, A. B., 1896, M. D., 1900; married, Cleveland, 
Mary Fairfield, Coit, March 17, 1909; asst. visiting surgeon Lake- 
side Hospital; pres. Cleveland Academy of Medicine; sec 'y Cleve- 
land Medical Library Ass'n; member American Medical Ass'n, 
and American Urological Ass'n; member University, and Mayfield 
Clubs. 

SAEGENT, H. Q.; merchant; born, Tampworth, N. H., Sept. 28, 
1838; son of Joel and Hannah K. Boyd Sargent; studied in public 
school in Tampworth, and went to New Hampton Literary and 
Scientific Institute, graduating in 1858; poor health prevented 
a college course at Yale; married, Boston, Mass., June 28, 1860, 
Eliza E. S. Drew; issue, two daughters, Mabel, now Mrs. Alfred A. 
Guthrie, of Albany, N. Y., and Grace C, the wife of Rev. Arthur 
Dumper, of Norwalk, O., taught school for several years, and in 
1862, entered the army as private in the 12th Regiment, N. H. Vol. 
Infantry; appointed 2nd lieut.; served till close of war in 1865; 
mustered out as senior capt., of regiment; in business in new Hamp- 
shire until 1869; in the Treasury Dept., at Washington, D. C, until 
1870; came to Cleveland, and established the H. Q. Sargent Co.; in 
1907, business incorporated as the Sargent Photo Supply & Mnfg. 
Co.; pres. of Hie Co.; school director, 1892 to 1900; interested in 
educational affairs: member Chamber of Commerce, Loyal Legion, 
Grand Army of the Republic, Mason, Knights of Pythias, Tippe- 
canoe Club; member Trinity Cathedral. 

SARSTEDT, Frank A.; tax adjuster; born, Medina county, O., 
Aug. 27, 1864; educated, public schools, Cleveland; in the drygoods 
business, 1878-1881; with C. C. S. & St. L. R. R., 1881-1893; gen. 
mngr. Earrntt & Columbia Brewing Co., 1893-1899; deputy county 
auditor, 1899-1901; appointed member board of Review by the 
state board of assessors and appraisers, 1901, and pres., 1904; 
serving to 1913; interested in several local corporations; Scottish 
Rite Mason, and K. Templar; Cleveland Commercial Travelers, 
National Union, Elk, Eagle; pres. Western Reserve Club, and 
originator Crawford Memorial Building, in E. 55th St.; Republican; 
Cleveland Athletic Club Recreation; golf, baseball, motoring. 

SAUM, O, C; real estate; born, Virginia, March 8, 1872; son of 
James W. and Sarah E. Maphis Saum; educated, public schools, 
Shenandoah county Virginia, and business College, Lynchburg, Va.; 
married, Springfield, O., December, 1899, Vesta Josephine Rupert; 
issue, two daughters, 12 and 5 years of age; came to Cleveland in 
October, 1895; business for himself since 1900; specializing in real 
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business for out-of-town investors; has done much to promote 
real estate interests of Cleveland, and is enthusiastic upon real 
eetate organization; has been vice pres. and sec'y of The Keal 
Estate Board, and a member of the valuation committee to ap- 
praise the Union Depot site; sec'y The Cushman Land & Invest- 
ment Co.; also of The Hiram House Social Settlement; member 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Eeal Estate Board, and Fire 
Insurance Exchange. 

SAUNDERS, Charles William; milk dealer; born. South Wales, 
Eng., March 25, 1880; son of Alfred and Rebecca Evans Saunders; 
educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Sept. 27, 
1911, Florence L. Leypoldt; one child; member Milk Dealers' Fra- 
ternal League. 

SAVAGE, Minot Judson; Clergyman; born, Norridgewock, Me., 
June, 10, 1841; son of Joseph L. and Ann S. (Stinson) Savage; 
fitted for college, but did not take course, because of poor health; 
graduate Bangor Theological Seminary, 1864; (D. D., Harvard, 
1896); married Ella A. Dodge, of Harvard, Mass., 1864; Congrega- 
tional home missionary in California, 1864-1867; pastor. Framing- 
ham Mass., 1867-1869, Hannibal, Mo., 1869-1873; became Unitarian; 
pastor Third Unitarian Church, Chicago, 1873-1874, Church of the 
Unity, Boston, 1874-1896; minister Church of the Messiah, New 
York, 1896-1906; retired. Author: Christianity, the Science of 
Manhood, 1873; The Religion of Evolution, 1876; Light on the 
Cloud, 1876; Bluffton, a Story of Today, 1878; Life Questions, 18- 
79; The Morals of Evolution, 1880; Talk About Jesus, 1881; Poems, 
1882; Belief in Good, 1881; Beliefs About Man, 1882; Beliefs About 
the Bible, 1883; The Modern Sphinx, 1883; Man, Woman and Child, 
1884; The Religious Life, 1885; Social Problems, 1886; These De- 
generate Days, 1887; My Creed, 1887; Religious Reconstruction, 
1888; Signs of the Times,' 1889; Helps for Daily Living, 1889; Life, 
1890; Four Great Questions Concerning God, 1891; The Irrepress- 
ible Conflict Between Two World-Theories, 1891; The Evolution 
of (liriFtianitv, 1892: Is this a Good World? 1893; Jesus and Mo- 
dern Life, 1893; A Ma, 1895; Religion for Today, 1897; Our Uni- 
tarian Gospel, 1898; Hymns, 1898; The Minister's Hand-book; 
Psychics, Facts and Theories; Life's Dark Problems, 1905; Life 
Beyond Death, 1901; The Passing and the Permanent in Religion, 
1901; Living by the Day, 1901; Men and Women, 1902; Can Tele- 
pathy Explain? 1902; Poems, 1905. Editor: Sacred Songs for pub- 
lic Worship (with Howc.rd M. Dow); Unitarian Catechism. 

SAWYER. Leroy Pursel; gen. mgr.; born, Schoolcraft, Mich., 
Dec. 26, 1878; son of Herbert Brown and Lina Frances Pursel 
Sawyer; educated, public ?ebools, Lincoln, Neb.; Preparatory School, 
University of Nebraska, 1899, degree of B. S.; married, Cleveland, 
Dec. 4, 1907, Jessamine A. Pike, one son, Joseph Sawyer, born, 
Sept. 23, 1909; father's home was in Vermont; went to Michigan 
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1895; was alderman of Lincoln, Nebraska, from Republican party; 
has been in business in Cleveland since February 1905; formerly in 
the electrical business in Minneapolis, and Chicago; gen. mgr. 
The Bukeye Electric Works; vice pres. National Electric Lamp 
Aes'n; member American Institute Electrical Engineers, and 
National Electric Light Ass'n; member Sigma Alpha Epsilon and 
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. Sons of Jove (Electrical), Chamber 
of Commerce, Hermit, and Athletic Clubs, 

SAYWELL, James K.; florist; born, Cleveland, May 9, 1882; son 
of Henry H. and Pbilipi Cowling Saywell; educated, Cleveland 
public schools; married, Cleveland, O., March 30, 1904, Agusta 
Blankenburg; one child; in 1896, went into garden business with 
his father; for past seventeen years, has been in the florist busi- 
ness, his father has been in same location for thirty-two years 
in garden and florist business, he is a partner in firm of Saywell 
Bros., designer and decorator; member M. E. Church; member 
Florist Club. Eecreation: Motoring. 

SCHAUFFLER, Fred; real estate; born, Millersburg, O., Nov. 
24, 1876; son of Carl and Amelia Joss Schauffler; married, Mt. 
Pleasant, Mich., Oct. 16, 1909, Nina Knickerbocker; served in Co. 
L., 14th U. S. Infantry, during Philippine insurrection, and Boxer 
uprising in China, 1898-1900; with The N. Y. Central Lines from 
April, 1905, to July, 1911, first three years in clerical capacity, 
last three as traveling land agt.; in July, 1911, opened offices in 
Cleveland to handle lactory property, still at it; pres. Schauffler 
Realty Co., and Factory Building Co.; member Cleveland Real Es- 
tate Board and Chamber of Commerce. 

SCHLATHEB, Leonard; retired; born in Germany; came to the 
United States in 1853, locating in Cleveland, and engaged in the 
brewery business; in 1857, started in for himself, and continued 
until 1902, when he sold out to the Cleveland-Sandusky Brewing 
Co.; director Peoples Savings Bank and the Union National Bank; 
Trustee Society Savings. 

SCHMIDT, Oscar Eichard; dealer and mnfg. violins; born, Mark- 
neukirchen, Oct. 3, 1887; son of E. Reinhold and Augusta Lederer 
Schmidt; educated, first grade public schools in Markneukircheu, 
and business college in Meissen; 1902-1904, clerk in the employ of 
F. Louis Reilich, Meissen; 1904-1906, E. Rheinhold Schmidt, Mark- 
neukircheu, as salesman; 1907-1909, bookkeeper, Wm. Frankfurth 
Hardware Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; 1910, started in violin business 
with his brother, as the Schmidt Bros. Co., in Philadelphia, Pa.; 
moved to Cleveland, December, 1910; partner Schmidt Bros. Co.; 
member of Germania Turnverein Vornvarts. 

SCHMIDT, Thomas Philip; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, 
Oct. 8, 1875; son of Gustav and Elizabeth Asmus Schmidt; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools, grade grammar high schools, Uni- 



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versity of Michigan, law and literary departments, 1895-1898; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, Oct. 10, 1906, Ami Mueller; issue, one son; sec'y 
and treas. The Cleveland Underground Rapid Transit R. R. Co.; 
sec'y, treas. and director Subway Realty Co.; director Eastland 
Steamship Co., and Cleveland Railway Co.; Democrat; member 
Ohio Senate 1905-1908; nominated for Lieut. Gov. of Ohio, 1908, 
but declined; since 1903 has attended every state and national 
convention; chairman of the Cuyahoga County delegation to the 
Ohio state convention in 1902-1904; served as member of advisory, 
finance and executive committees of Democratic Central Committee, 
and delegate from the 20th district to the National Democratic 
Convention, in Denver, in 1908; close friend and loyal supporter 
of the late Tom L. Johnson; one of the chief promoters of the 
Forest City R. R. Co.; at one time mgr. of the Stock Exchange of 
the Municipal Traction Co.; connected with many civic, industrial 
and financial institutions of Cleveland. Recreations: Athletics 
and Gardening. 

SCHMITT, C. A.; florist; born in Germany, May 16, 1871; son 
of A. and Salome Mueller Schmitt; educated, Glenville public 
schools; with Stoors & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., 1888, to 1890; 
worked for Edwin Lonsdale, in Philadelphia, from 1896 to 1902; 
member the lodge of Moose, and Florist Club. Favorite recreation; 
Motoring. 

SCHNEIDER, Edward F.; sec'y and gen'l mgr. Cleveland, 
Southwestern & Columbus R. R. ; born, Toledo, Oct. 19, 1862; son 
of P. F. and Louisa Ackerman Schneider; educated, public schools, 
German Wallace College, Berea, O., Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy; married, Berea, Oct. 4, 1888, Helen F. Whitbeck; for twelve 
years with Benton, Myers & Co., wholesale druggists; ten years 
with Cleveland, Southwestern & Columbus; director Mansfield 
Ry., Light & Power Co.; Mason; K. of P. 

SCHNEIDER, George A.; sec'y and mgr. Athletic Club; born, 
Cleveland, May 24, 1874; son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Wiltgen) 
Schneider; educated. High school and Business College; married, 
Cleveland, April, 1896, Margaret H. Smith; one son, George H., 
eight years; cashier U. S. Life Insurance Co.; two years editor 
American Sportsman, four years general newspaper work, sec'y 
Cleveland Athletic Club, May 1, 1908; sec'y and mgr., since No- 
vember, 1911; sec'y fiscal trustees. Maternity Hospital; member 
Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., and Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M.; mem- 
ber Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club; vice pres. Amateur Ath- 
letic Union of the U. S. 

SCHNEIDER, Gustave; plumber and heating contractor; born, 
Cleveland, Dec. 29, 1862; son of J. A. and Helen Rolf Schneider; 
educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, 1892, Luella 
J. Moore; one daughter; engaged in the plumbing business on Pros- 



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peet St., near Huron Ed., under the name of Schneider Bros.; 
later moved to Euclid Ave., near 20th St., and organized The 
Schneider Plumbing Co.; will move soon to Euclid Ave. and 46th 
St.; pres. The Schneider Plumbing Co.; member Chamber of Com- 
merce, Builders Exchange, Master Plumbers Ass'n, Athletic, and 
Kotary Clubs; recreations: Automobiling and Fishing. 

SCHULKINS, Thomas G.; laundry business; born, England, 
1861; son of John A. and Emma J. Stoddard Schulkins; educated, 
Toronto, Can.; married, Chicago, 111., Nov. 10, 1881, Margaret 
Ernsley; issue, three daughters and one son; came to Cleveland 
from Chicago in 1898, and started in the laundry business; The 
Mechanics Laundry was a departure from regular laundry work, 
as they made a specialty of laundering shop clothes exclusively; 
member Masons and Odd Fellows; member Eotary, and Cleve- 
land Laundrymens Club. Eecreation: Automobiling. 

SCHUSTER, Joseph J.; jeweler and optician; born, Cleveland, 
May 18, 1881; son of Joseph and Lena Bissman Schuster; graduated 
from the following schools; public, Edminston Business College, 
1897, Northern Illinois College of Opthamology and Otology; also, 
Northern Illinois College of Engraving, 1901, and Canadian Horo- 
logical Institute, 1900; married, Cleveland, March 16, 1910, Martha 
C. Schwebke, one daughter; for several years has been watch in- 
spector for the Erie E. E.; member American Ass'n of Opticians, 
Ohio Optical Ass'n, and American National Eetail Jewelers Ass'n. 

SCHWAN, George H.; Consular Agent for the German Empire; 

born, Cleveland, March 27, 1860; educated, Cleveland public 
schools; graduated from Concordia College, Ft. Wayne, Ind., 1879; 
took post-graduate course, Concordia University, St. Louis, Mo.; 
read law and admitted to the bar in 1882; began practice in Cleve- 
land and continued same until elected to the common pleas bench 
in 1904; appointed by Gov. Nash to Police Co^irt, in 1901, to fill 
out an unexpired term; member a number political organizations; 
Eepublican; member German Lutheran Church. 

SCOBIE, Andrew W.; milk dealer; born, Cleveland, July 24, 
1865; son of William and Agnes Scott Scobie; educated. Cleve- 
land public schools and the Cleveland School of Art, 1883-1887; 
married, Cleveland, July .S, 1888, Eebecca E. .Johnston; issue, two 
daughters and three sons; owner and proprietor The Hudson Farm 
Dairy. 

SCOFIELD, Levi Tucker; architects; born in Cleveland, Nov. 9, 
1842; son of William Scofield, architect and builder, and Mary 
Coon; Ohio pioneers; attended public and high schools; in 1867, 
married Elizabeth Clark Wright, daughter of Marshall W. Wright, 
of Kingsville, O.; upon the outbreak of the Civil War, enlisted in 
Battery D, 1st Ohio Artillery; commissioned lieut. 103rd 0. V. I., 
in 1862, 1st lieut. in 1863, and commissioned capt. until mustered 
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Gen. Jacob D. Cox for two years; after the war, resumed his pro- 
fessional work as architect; among the larger buildings of his 
construction are: Cleveland Workhouse (1867), State Asylum for 
the Insane, Athens (1868), State Asylum, Columbus, (1869), Sol- 
diers' and Sailors Orphans' Home, Xenia, (1870) North Carolina 
State Penitentiary, Raliegh (1870), Cleveland Postoffice (1880), 
Mansfield Reformatory (1884), Cleveland Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Monument (1886), Schofield Building, Cleveland, in association 
with his sons, (1901); surviving sons, William Marshall Scofield, 
architect, capt. 1st Ohio Vol. Cavalry, War with Spain, 1898; 
capt. 31st U. S. Vol. Inf., 1899-1901; Philippine insurrection, and 
engineer officer on the staff of Gen. Robert Kobbe; Sherman W. 
Scofield, architect, Troop A, 1st Ohio Vol. Cavalry, 1898; Repub- 
lican; member Euclid Avenue Baptist Church; member Ohio Com- 
mandery. Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Army and Navy 
Post, Grand Army of the Republic; chief recreation: Golf. 

SCOTT, Frank A.; manufacturer; born, Cleveland, March 22, 
1873; son of Robert Crozier and Sarah Ann Warr Scott; educated, 
grammar schools, Cleveland; tutored in Latin and mathematics 
by Prof. John H. Dynes; married, 1886, Bertha B. Dynes; issue, 
Katherine B., Chester B., Eleanor L.; married Faith A. Eraser, 
1911; asst. sec 'y Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 1895-1899; 
sec'y Chamber of Commerce, 1899-1905; sec 'y and treas. Superior 
Savings & Trust Co., 1905 1908; receiver Municipal Traction Co., 
Cleveland, 1908-1909; sec 'y-treas. The Warner & Swasey Co., 1909- 

; member and chairman Military commandery, Chamber of 

Commerce, 1898, to date; vice pres. Associated Charities; director 
Humane Society; treas. Lakeside Hospital; member advisory 
board, Cleveland Technical high school; member Union, Rowfant 
Clubs, Cleveland, Engineers Club, New York. 

SCOTT, Frank C; lawyer; born. New Wilmington, Pa., July 12, 
1862; son of William J. and Mary J. Waid Scott; educated, West- 
minster College, at New Wilmington, Pa., degree of A. B.; mar- 
ried, Cleveland July 24, 1889, Anna B. Graham; issue, William 
Waid Scott and Elizabeth G. Scott; director the Antisdale Realty 
Co.; trustee and vice pres. of the Cleveland Law Library Ass'n; 
member Independent Order of Foresters. 

SCOTT, William C; Lake Ford agt. Can. Pac. Ry.; born, Car- 
roll, county, O., May 3, 1869; son of Thomas and Susanna Gant 
Scott; in common schools until 13 years old, then entered coal 
mines; has picked up education since, as duties would permit; 
married, Cambridge, 0., May 6, 1896, Sophia Hollenbeck; issue, 
two sons; Independent, politically; 1897-1899, National organizer 
U. M. U. A.; 1899-1901, editor Miners Journal; since 1901, in fuel 
department of Canadian Pacific R. R.; looking after mine loading, 
lake and rail forwarding of all American fuel purchased by the 
Canadian Pacific R. R.; three million tons annually; is well known 
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good judge of coal; member Chamber of Industry. Recreation: 
Gardening and Shooting. 

SCOTT, Nathan Stone; surgeon; M. D., Oberlin College, 1885- 
1887; Western Reserve University, 1889; (hon. A. M. Oberlin, 
1895); Prof, principles of surgery, and dean, Cleveland College 
Physicians and Surgeons; consulting surgeon, Cleveland General 
and St. John's Hospitals; member A. M. A., Ohio State Medical 
Society, Cleveland Medical Society, American Association Gyne- 
cologists and Obstetricians. 

SCfULLEN, Rev. wmiam A.; Ph. D., S. T. D., J. C. D.; sec'y 
Diocese of Cleveland; born, Oct. 2, 1879, East Liverpool, 0.; son 
of Patrick and Joanna Scullen; Parochial and public high schools, 
East Liverpool; St. Charles College, Ellicott City Md., 1898-1902; 
St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, 1902-1903; American College, 
Eome, 1903 -1909; Ph. D., from the Propaganda University, Rome, 
1904; S. T. D., same university 1908; J. C. D., Apollonaris Uni- 
versity, Rome, 1909; ordained priest by Cardinal Respighi, Sept. 
21, 1907, in the Laterau Basilica, Rome; appointed sec'y of Cleve- 
land diocese, June 14, 1909; member Alumni American College, 
Rome, (historian, 1912); Alumni St. Charles College, Alumni, East 
Liverpool High School. 

SENTER, Frederick Baldwin; mnfr. of lubricating oils; born, 
Bedford, O., April 6, 1864; son of John and Jane Boyle Senter; 
educated, common and high school and Spencerian Business Col- 
lege; married, Middlefield, O., Dec. 25, 1889, Kate Donaldson, one 
daughter, Margaret, and one son, Talmadge; took active part in 
Bedford civic improvements; promoted establishment of public 
water works, and sewerage system after graduation started in oil 
business and continued in same until he established the Franklin 
Oil & Gas Co., of Bedford and Cleveland; capitalized at $200,000; 
most modern plant for producing high-grade cylinder oil, engine 
oil and boiler compounds; organized The Bedford Supply Co., 
general merchandise; Bedford Board of Trade, raising membership 
from 6 to 125; pres. and gen. mgr. The Franklin Oil & Gas Co.; 
his father came to Northfield toM^nship, in Summit county, from 
Londonderry, Ireland, in 1840, and took up a section of land still 
owned by the family; trustee Bedford Baptist Church; member 
Bedford Board of Trade, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Auto- 
mobile Club, Golden Rod Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Bedford. 
Recreations: Hunting and Fishing. 

SEVERANCE, Scion L.; banker; born, Cleveland, Sept. 8, 1834; 
son of Solomon Lewis and Mary H. Long Severance; educated in 
district and private schools; married. Kinsman, O. Oct. 10, 1860, 
Emily 0. Allen; issue, three children; Julia, now Mrs. B. L. Milli- 
kin; Prof. Allen D. Severance, and Miss Mary Severance; one of 
the organizers of the Euclid Ave. National Bank; its first cashier 
and last pres.; later it became the Euclid Park, and later the First 



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National Bank; still interested in the banking business; member 
Union Club, Chamber of Commerce, Second Presbyterian Church. 
Recreation: Travel, twice visited China and Japan, and voyaged 
round the world. 

SHEADLE, Jasper Holmes; Iron ore and lake transportation; 
born, New Bedford, Pa.; son of Obediah and Sarah Barnheisel 
Sheadle; educated, public schools and Hiram College; married. 
New York, Kate Buckingham; Republican; joined his father in 
banking business, in Girard, O.; two years teller of the Girard 
Savings Bank; at the age of 22 became asst. cashier Second Na- 
tional Bank, Youngstown, O.; left the banking business, and went 
to New York City, as supt. of laying of gas mains for Standard 
Gas-Light Co.; 1888, became sec'y of the Mahoning Valley Iron 
Manufacturers Ass'n, in 1890, became sec'y for The Cleveland 
-Cliffs Iron Co.; in charge of ore sales and lake transportation; 
which business aflfiliation he continues to hold in connection with 
other allied interests; sec'y Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.; vice pres. 
Cleveland Iron Mining Co.; director Grand Island S. S. Co., Hanna 
•Transit Co., Miller Transit Co., Cleveland Trust Co., National 
Commercial Bank; sec'y and director S. S. Hopkins Co.; vice pres. 
Presque Isle Transportation Co., and Lake Carriers Ass'n; member 
American Iron & Steel Institute and American Institute of Mining 
Engineers; member Union, Mavfield Countrv, Church and Rowfaut 
Clubs. 

SHEETS, Frank S.; flour, seed and grain business; born, Cleve- 
land, Feb. 9, 1885; son of James M. and Hattie Bell Snow Sheets; 
educated, Cleveland Grammar and High School, 1914, Oberlin Col- 
lege, Oberlin, O. ; director The Sheets Bros. Elevator Co.; stock- 
holder in the following; The Columbia Savings & Loan Co., The 
Canfield Certified Milk Co., The South End Realty Co., The Cleve- 
land Worsted Mills Co., The Sheets Bros. Elevator Co.; member 
Euclid Lodge, No. 599, F. A. M., McKinley Chapter, No. 181, Couer 
De Lion Commandery No. 64, Cleveland Council No. 36, Mystic 
Shrine, Al Koran Temple, Scottish Rite Masonary, 32nd degree; 
active member East End Baptist Church; member Athletic, and 
Century Clubs. 

SHELDON, Herbert; pres. and mgr.; born, Marple, Eng., March 
17, 1869; son of John and Catherine Jinks Sheldon; educated, 
Marple, Eng.; married, Marple, Eng., July 17, 1893, Sarah Helena 
Barlow; one issue, daughter, Gladys May; arrived at Massillon, 
O., from England September 1894; trained in coal mining opera- 
tions, 1894-1899; from 1899 to date holding following official posi- 
tions; 1899-1901, pres. The O. Young Coal Co.; 1899-1902, sec'y and 
treas. The Somerdale Coal Co.; 1899-1903, gen. supt. The Massillon- 
Cleveland Coal Co., 1899-1906 gen. supt. The Midvale Goshen Coal 
Co.; 1901-1910, sec'y and supt. The Goshen Hill Coal Co.; 1899-1908, 
gen. mgr. The Somerdale Coal Co.; 1906-1910, gen. mgr. The Midvale 
Goshen Coal Co.; 1910, to date pres. and gen. mgr. Tuscora Sand 



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& Coal Co.; has held every important position pertaining to min- 
ing and selling bituminous coal, Masonic aflBliations, Iris Lodge, 
No. 299, Webb Chapter, No. 14, Cleveland Council, No. 36, Knight 
Templar, Oriental Commandery, No. 12; 32nd degree Scottish Rites, 
Lake Erie Commandery, Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine, veiled 
prophet Grotto, No. 17, Woodward Chapter, No. 138, O. E, S. L, 
obtained naturalization yapers as an American citizen, 1899; after 
five yeais experiments, had succeeded in producing molding sands 
for foundry use on a scientific and mechanical basis. 

SHEPAED, Arthur Bishop; electric machinery and building 
materials; ..orn Troy, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1871; son of William A. and 
Martha Vail bhepard; educated, St. Paul School, Garden City, 
L. I.; Columbian University, Washington, D. C; Massachusetts, 
Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.; married. New York City, 
September, 1900, Gertrude Robins; three children; designing en- 
gineer for The General Electric Co., Schnectady, N. Y.; afterwards 
mgr. of their Cleveland ofSce; with the company fourteen years; 
one year pres. Toledo j Chicago Interurban R. R.; at present, 
district mgr. for the following corporations: Wagner Electric 
Mnfg. Co., Asbestos Protected Metal Co., Colonial Fan & Motor 
Co., Wilson System Co., Sundh Eiectric Co., C. & C. Electric Mnfg. 
Co., Niles Electric Works, of G. E. Co., U. S. E. M. Co.; director 
Toledo & Chicago Int. R. R. R. Co.; member Electric League, of 
Cleveland; member Theta Phi Fraternity, and Union Club. 

SHERMAN, William; supt. of mails; born, Cleveland, 0., Dec. 25, 
1868; son of John and Elizabeth Mitchell Sherman; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Feb. 8, 1905, Mary 
L. Smith; first venture was in the coal business, but associations 
in that line being uncongenial and having a natural desire for 
mechanics, was about to engage in the machine and engineering 
business; at this time, was offered a position in the U. S. Post 
OflSce; embracing the opportunity for temporary employment, en- 
tered the postal service under Maj. W. W. Armstrong, who was 
the postmaster; that was in August, 1888, since which time he has 
continued with the postal department, serving successively under 
Postmasters A. T. Anderson, Judge J. C. Hutehins, Col. C. C. Dews- 
toe, and R. G. Floyd, the present incumbent; during that period, the 
gross receipts of the Cleveland Post Ofiice have increased from 
less then $400,000 to over $3,000,000 annually, one month's revenue 
at the present time nearly equaling that of an entire year at the 
beginning of the period. Recreations: Fishing, Boating, and an 
occasional jaunt through some large manufacturing plant. 

SHERWIN, George N.; banker; born, Cleveland, March, 20, 
1871; son of N. B. and Martha Kidder Sherwin; High School 
course; graduated from Western Reserve University in 1892; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, 1901, Miss Florei.ee W. Jones; issue, one daughter, 
Martha Leland, born April, 1907; three years in the Auditing Dept. 
of the Lake Shore Railroad; receiving teller in the Park National 



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Bank; on consolidation of the Park National Bank with the Euclid 
Ave. National Bank; became asst, cashier of the Euclid Park Na- 
tional Bank; and asst. cashier First Natiotal Bank; now cashier 
First Trust and Savings Co.; director Sheriff St. Market & Storage 
Co.; member Hermit, University, Tavern, Union, and Country 
Clubs. Eecreations: Out-door Sports; authority on Tennis, acting 
as reteree in Cleveland championship games. 

SHERWIN, John; banker; born, Cleveland, 1868; son of N. B, 
and Lizzie Kidder Sherwin; married, Cleveland, 1893, Frances Mc- 
intosh; issue, two sons, John, Jr., and Francis M.; pres. First Na- 
tional Bank, First Trust & Savings Co., Wigmore Realty Co.; chair- 
man Bishop, Babcoek, Becker Co.; director Cleveland Telephone 
Co., Central Union Telephone Co., Wellman, Seaver, Morgan Co.; 
G. C. Kuhlman Car Co., and the Lenox Co.; member Union, Tavern, 
Athletic, Country, Roadside, Mayfield, Chagrin Valley Hunt, and 
Willowick Clubs. 

SHIELDS, James B.; cigar mnfr.; born. New Castle, Pa., Nov. 
1, 1874; son of Louis and Lena Winternitz Shields; educated. New 
Castle High School; married, Cleveland, March 6, 1902, Fannie M. 
Meisel; issue, two sons; J. B. Shields & Co., started in business 
in 1895; incorporated under the name of Shields-Wertheim Co., 
1906; at that time he was elected pres. of the company, and still 
continues in that capacity; pres. Southern Ohio Coal Co., and 
Superior Slide Co; directer Up-to-Date Laundry Co., H. R. Pol- 
lock Co., J. E. Meisel Co.; member Elks, Chamber of Commerce, 
B 'Nair B 'ritii, Cleveland Commercial Travelers Ass 'n. Western 
Reserve Club. Recreations: Reading and Athletics, 

SHIMMON, Claude Wilber; real estate; born, Allegheny, Pa., 
Dec. 31, 1878; son of John C. and Elizabeth McLaughlin Shimmon; 
educated, public grade and High School, Cleveland; A. B., Western 
Reserve University, 1901; Cleveland Law School, 1904; married, 
Bedford, O., Sept. 22, 1905, Florence A. Prestage; issue, two 
daughters; 1 and 4 years old; Republican; member City Council, 
1910-1911, for Ward 18; member Cleveland Improvement League, 
and The Miles Ave. Civic League; 1901-1905, real estate salesman 
with The Van De Boe-Hager Co.; 1905, salesman The American 
Book Co.; asst. sales mgr. The West Madison Realty Co.; 1906, 
real estate broker, 1907-1912, sales mgr. The Cain Realty Co.; gen. 
agt. The Citizens Trust & Guaranty Co., security bonds; 1907-1912, 
member Cleveland Real Estate Board, Cleveland Board of Surety 
Underwriters, Cleveland Credit Mens Ass'n; member College Fra- 
ternity, AIM) Newburg Lodge, F. & A. Masons, Standard Lodge 
No. 46, K. of P.; pres. of The Pythian Association of Cuyahoga 
County. Recreations: Motoring, Music and Athletics. 

SHIVERICK, Asa; merchant; born, Omaha, Neb., 1877; son of 
Charles and Eleanor Coary Shiverick; educated, St. Paul's School, 
Concord, N. H.; married, Concord, N. H., Janette Bancroft; vic« 



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pres. and gen. mgr. The Higbee Co.; vice pres. J. N. Adam & Co; 
member the Union Club, Cleveland, the Ellicott Club, Buffalo, the 
Country Club, Buffalo. 

SHOLES, Justin Grant; sec'y-treas. the Ohio Chemical & Mfg. 
Co.; born, Cleveland, Feb. 9, 1871; son of Thomas G. and Harriet 
Estee Sholes; educated at Brownell St. School and Central High; 
married, Cleveland, Dec. 16, 1908, Alice Everrett; issue, one son, 
Justion Everrett Sholes, born April 29, 1910; with the Grasselli 
Chemical Co., 1886 to 1900; re-organized the Lennox Chemical Co., 
Cleveland, sec'y and treas. to 1910; organized the Ohio Chemical 
Co., Cleveland, 1910, and sec'y-treas. of that firm to date; vice 
pres. Western Terminal Co.; has served three enlistments in Troop 
A., O. N. G.; member Chamber of Commerce, Union, and Country 
Clubs; member Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., Cleveland Chapter. 

SHOOK, Floyd D.; insurance; born, Randolph O., March 5, 1867; 
son of David and Linda A. Stambaugh Shook; educated, Hiram 
College, 1882-1883; finished at Ohio Normal University, Ada, O., 
1887; married, Randolph, O., Nov. 20, 1889, Josephine E. Trescott; 
with The Adams Ford Co.; with firm twenty years, until August, 
1913, when he became associated with The Penn Mutual Life In- 
surance Co. of Philadelphia, as associate general agent; director 
The Rotary Mnfg. Co.; director The Ohio Insurance Agency Co.; 
director The Knollwood Cemetery Co.; trustee Cleveland Christian 
Orphanage and Euclid Ave. Christian Church; member Masonic 
Order, McKinley Chapter, Royal League, Chamber of Commerce, 
past pres. Cleveland Association of Credit Men; member Athletic, 
Colonial, Rotary, and Advertising Clubs. Recreation: Automo- 
biling. 

SHULTERS, Hoyt V.; sec'y and treas. The East Ohio Gas Co.; 
born, Chautauqua, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1868; son of Edwin and Martha 
(Camp) Shulters; educated, public school and business college; 
married, August, 1890, Mary E. Courtright, of Painesville, O.; 
business career, office position with the Tiffin Natural Gas Co. for 
four years; went to Toledo for the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas 
Co.; in 1895, became asst. sec'y and treas. until 1902; came to Cleve- 
land, and was elected sec'y and treas. East Ohio Gas Co.; sec'y 
and treas. Green River Coal Co.; director Connecting Gas Co., and 
East Ohio Gas Co.; interested financially in other gas companies 
and banks; Republican; Mason; member Union Club. 

SHUMAEIEB, Frank P.; real estate and insurance; born near 
Gallon, O., Dec. 20, 1858; son of Joseph H. and Susan Walton Shu- 
maker; educated, district school, Mt. Union College, Alliance, O., 
degree M. S., 1886; married. Alliance, O., June 18, 1889, Maggie M. 
Atwell; issue, two girls and one son; councilman and mayor of Chagrin 
Falls, O.; member of the Ohio State Senate from Cuyahoga County, 
1904-1905; teacher District School, Principal Mt. Union Public 
Schools, 1866-1867; supt. Chagrin Falls schools, 1888-1901; granted 



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life high school certificate in 1886; director The Chagrin Falls 
Banking oo.; member Cleveland Fire Insurance Exchange; pres. 
Chagrin Falls Board of Education, 1907; trustee Chagrin Falls M. 
E. Church; member I. O. O. F., No. 290; Golden Gate Lodge, No. 
245, F. & A. M.; Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, E. A. M.; Oriental 
Commandery, No. 12, Knights Templars; earned every dollar he 
ever had to spend on a college education. 

SIDDALL, George Bennett; attorney-at-law; born, Oberlin, O., 
Dee. 13, 1866; son of Dr. James F. and Orinda Candee Siddall; 
educated, Oberlin public schools, Oberlin College, from whence he 
graduated with degree ot A. B., 1891, Western Eeserve Law School; 
married, Calumet, Mich., Aug. 17, 1892, Nettie M. Danielson; ad- 
mitted to the bar, March 13, 1896; became member of firm of Hen- 
derson, Quail & Siddall (J. M. Henderson, F. A. Quail and G. B, 
Siddall), Jan. 1, 1904; sec'y and gen, counsel The Peerless Motor 
Car Co.; pres. The Peerless Motor Car Co. of Hlinois and Phila- 
delphia; director Dean Realty Co. of N. Y.; director and sec'y The 
Conewango Refining Co., Warren, Pa.; pres. The Tiona Refining 
Co., Indianapolis; director The Ohio Quarries Co. and The Ohio Cut 
Stone Co.; vice pres. and director The Lorain & Southern R. R. Co.; 
member Ohio Bar Ass'n, and Cleveland Bar Ass'n; member Union, 
University, Mayfield-Country Clubs of Cleveland, and the Uni- 
versity Club of Chicago. 

SIG-LEB, Gilbert Lee; merchant; born, Fowler, O., Feb. 28, 1874; 
son of Lucius M. and Alice L. Silliman Sigler; educated, Cleveland 
public schools and Case School of Applied Science; graduated, 1896; 
married, Cleveland, Oct. 6, 1897, Sarah Louisa Martin; issue, four 
children; treas. The Sigler Bros. Co.; member Beta Theta Pi Fra- 
ternity, Athletic, Automobile, and Country Clubs; children's birth 
record, Gilbert Lee Sigler, born Sept. 3, 1899; Lucius Martin Sigler, 
born June 28, 1903; John Martin Sigler, born March 2, 1911; 
Gilbert Martin Sigler, born Sept. 30, 1913. 

SIGLEB, Lucius M.; jeweler; born, Trumbull County, O.; son of 
Gilbert and Lorinda Tyrell Sigler; educated, Oberlin College; mar- 
ried, Trumbull County, O., Alice L. Silliman; issue, one son, Gilbert 
L. Sigler; in February, 1874, began business in Cleveland, forming 
a partnership with Chas. E. Sumner in the wholesale jewelery busi- 
ness; in May, 1875, bought Mr. Sumner's interest, and continued 
the business under the name of L. M. Sigler, until January, 1878, 
when Urial R. Sigler, a brother, came into the business, and the 
firm name was changed to Sigler Bros., which business was incor- 
porated in 1895, as The Sigler Bros. Co.; pres. the Sigler Bros. Co.; 
member Cleveland City Lodf:,e, F. & A. M.; Cleveland Chapter, 
Holyrood Commandery, Scottish Rite, Al Koran Temple; member 
Colonial, and Athletic Clubs. 

SILLIMAN, Benjamin F.; mechanical engineer; born, Reading, 
Pa.; educated, common schools, Cleveland; married, Cleveland, 

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Maud M. Valentine; vice pres. and gon. nigr. The Electric Railway 
Improvement Co.; vice pres. and sec'y Tregoning Electric Mnfg. 
Co.; director Forest City Electric Co., The Ohio Blower Co., Cleve- 
land Steel Tool Co.; member The Perfection Spring Co.; member 
Masonic Order, and Athletic Club. 

SIMPSON, Greorge O.; insurance; born, St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 5 
1874; son of William H. and Sarah M. Cheetham Simpson; edu 
cated in Milwaukee, Wis., public schools; married, Milwaukee 
June 25, 1901, . Blanche Rogers, June 25, 1901; issue; one son 
George Rogers, born Nov. 29, 1906; first lieut. Light Battery A, W 
V. Artillery, 1898; bank clerk, Milwaukee, 1891-1895; fire insur 
ance since 1895; Northwestern Nat'l Ins. Co., 1895-1903, beginning 
with office work, then state agt. and mgr. in Cleveland, 1900-1903 
local mgr. Royal Ins. Co., 1903-1911; sec'y the O. M. Stafford, Goss, 
Bedell Co. since 1911; Mason; member Mayfield Country Club and 
Military Order of Foreign Wars. 

SIMPSON, Harry Prescott; advertising counselor and advisor; 
born, Chelton, Eug., Jan. 24, 1870; son of William Grace and Jane 
Benson Luce Simpson; educated at St. Margaret's Grammar School, 
Kent, Eng.; married, Pittsburgh, April 6, 1896, Laura Mudge; 
issue, one son, Edmund Gordon; in stove manufacturing, Pitts- 
burgh, fifteen years; advertising counselor, eight years; pres. 
Fowler-Simpson Co.; adv. director the Everstick Patent Holding 
Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic, Cleveland 
Advertising, Euclid Clubs, Cleveland, Saranac Lake Country Club. 

SINGER, WILLIAM F.; mgr. Fairbanks, Morse & Co.; born, 
Sept. 20, 1860, St. Louis Mo.; educated in St, Louis public schools 
and at Washington University; married, Aug. 7, 1889, Alice Nu- 
gent, at Kansas City, Mo.; chief clerk. Maintenance of Way De- 
partment, Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis R. R., from 1887 to 
1892; general store-keeper, World's Fair, Chicago, 1892-1894; pur- 
chasing agent Western Stone Co., Chicago, 1894-1900; in Cleveland 
since as manager for Fairbanks, Morse & Co., scales, gas engines, 
steam pumps, etc.; member Masons, Royal Arcanum, Cleveland 
Athletic Club. 

SKEEL, John C; building contractor; born, Sterling, N. Y., 1846; 
son of Truman C. and Sarah M. Cooper Skeel; married, Dover, 
Mich., 1889, Carrie P. Stockwell; issue, five children; served two 
years in the Civil War, in the 110th aeg. N. Y. S. Vol.; vice pres. 
The Skeel Bros. Co.; director The Cleveland Builders' Supply Co.; 
The Woodward Masonic Temple Co.; member Woodward Lodge, No. 
508, F. & A. M.; McKinley Chapter, R. A. M.; Oriental Command- 
ery. Knight Templars; belongs to Cleveland Builders' Exchange, 
and Chamber of Commerce. 

SEIEEL, Roland Edward; physician; born, Fulton, Oswego 
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(Butler) Skeel; educated, Cleveland public schools; M. D., Uni- 
versity of Michigan, 1890; married Alva P. Boepple, of Cleveland, 
O., 1893; Dean Cleveland College Physicians and Surgeons, 1902- 
1910; prof, gynecology, Western Eeserve University; gynecologist 
to St. Luke's Hospital; consulting surgeon to Lutheran and Lake- 
wood Hospitals; visiting gynecologist to City Hospital; member 
American Association Obstetricians and Gynecologists, A. M. A.; 
Republican. 

SLATMEYEE, Henry G.; general contractor; born, Cleveland, 
Cleveland, July 28, 1848; educated, common schools of Cleveland; 
in 1879, started in the contracting business; has continued in it 
ever since; erected the Perry-Payne Bldg.; director the National 
Woolen Mills Co., and the Pearl St. Savings & Loan Co.; member 
German- American Club, Chamber of Commerce and Builders' Ex- 
change; Independent in politics. 

SLOAN, Clark W.; optometrist; born, Irouton, O., Oct. 18, 1875; 
son of Ezra C. and Mary C. Wood Sloan, D. D. S.; educated, Ironton 
Grammar and High School, Chicago Ophthalmic College, 1899, and 
post graduate courses; married, Ironton, 1893, Frances E. Donohoe; 
issue, one son, and three daughters; six years with the Bowler & 
Burdick Co.; one year with The Webb C. Ball Co.; established his 
own office in 1903; pres. Cleveland Optometrical Society, 1908- 
1910; vice pres. Ohio State Optical Ass'n, 1909; pres. Ohio State 
Optical Ass'n, 1910-1912; member Finance and Educational Com- 
mittees, American Optical Ass'n, 1910-1911; active in promoting 
legislation to elevate standards of optometry by compulsory quali- 
fications of those engaged in correcting defective sight by glasses; 
member City Advertising, and Rotary Clubs. 

SLOCUM, Milton Russell; music dealer; born, Lyendonville, N, 
Y., Aug. 4, 1859; at the age of 4 years, came to Ohio with his 
parents; educated, public schools of Osborn; married, Aug. 6, 1889, 
Minnie M. Walsh, of Elyria, O.; issue, one daughter, Lucile, a 
talented musician; in 1876, when a mere boy, became salesman in 
a music store in Dayton, 0.; spent many years as a traveling sales- 
man for the music trade; opened music store in Cleveland in 1897, 
meeting with success; Christian Scientist; member Lakewood 
Church; member Elks Lodge, No. 18, Marysville Lodge, No. 87, 1. 
O. O. F., Commercial Travelers, No. 1824, and Toledo Traveling 
Mens Ass'n, No. 536; member Ohio Council of the North American 
Union of Forest City Council, No. 196, of the National Union; has 
thorough knowledge of piano manufactaring. 

SMITH, Albert William; college prof.; born at Newark, O., Oct. 
4, 1862; son of George H. and Mary (Sanborn) Smith; Ph. C, Uni- 
versity of Michigan, 1885; B. S., Case School of Applied Science, 
Cleveland, 1887; Ph. D., University of Zurich, 1891; married Mary 
Wilkinson of Cleveland, June 5, 1890; prof, chemistry. Case School 
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icah Chemistry Society, American Institute Mining Engineers, 
American Electrochem. Society, Society Promotion Engineering 
Education; has contributed to technical papers in society pro- 
ceedings. 

SMITH, Harold E.; patent lawyer; born, Lebanon, N. H., May 
2, 1882; son of Wilbur F. and Marie Antoinette Sargent Smith; 
educated, Dartmouth College, A. B., 1903, A. M., 1906; National 
University Law School, LL. B., 1908; LL. M., 1909; George Wash- 
ington University, M. P. L., 1909; married, Washington, D. C. Oct. 
5, 1909, Annie Strattou; one son; instructor in physics at Dartmouth 
College, 1903-1906, asst. physicist, National Bureau of Standards, 
1906; examiner U. S. Patent Office, 1906-1910; member of firm of 
Hull & Smith, patent lawyers, junior partner; member Hanover 
Scientific Ass'n; member Gamma Alpha and Sigma Nu Phi fra- 
ternities. Eecreations: Canoeing and Music. 

SMITH, Walter Hubbell, division freight agt., L, S. & M. S. E. 
R.; born, Cleveland, O., June 15, 1861; son of James H. and Mary 
Hubbell Smith, Cleveland public schools, married, Cleveland, Sept. 
17, Mame E. Smith, three children, entered E. E. service April 1, 
1879 with L. S. & M. S. E. E., has been connected with the general 
freight dept. of that road ever since; Oct. 1, 1881, to June 1, 1885, 
chief clerk, Eevision Dept.; June 1, 1885 to July 1, 1889, chief rate 
clerk; July 1, 1889, to Jan. 1, 1897, chief clerk, General Freight 
Dept.; Jan. 1, 1897 to March 1, 1905, chief of Tariff Bureau; March 
1, 1905, was appointed Division Freight Agt.; member Knights of 
the Maccabees, Cleveland Athletic, and Traffic Clubs, and Trans- 
portation Club of Buffalo. 

SMITH, John Alvaro; lawyer; born, Union County, O., Dec. 12, 
1848; son of John W. and Esther A. Keys Smith; educated, O. W. 
U., Delaware, O., 1871, A. M. & B. A.; B. L., Ohio Law College, 
Cleveland, 1872; admitted to U. S. Courts, July 4, 1872; married, 
Cleveland, July 18, 1876, Marietta Edmondston; one son, John 
William Smith, attorney; member Cleveland Library Board six and 
one-half years; member City Council one term; 1888-1890, pres. of 
East Cleveland Council, and Vice Mayor; 1911-1913, director, mem- 
ber of executive committee and atty. The Pearl St. Savings & Trust 
Co.; director in the following, Columbia Savings & Loan Co., Day- 
kin Plumbing Co., Detroit St. Investment Co., Farmers Chem. & 
Fert. Co., Forest City S. & Tr. Co., Hotel Euclid Co., The Kennedy 
Co., Merchants Bk. & Storage Co., Ohio Moulding Mnfg. Co., Eead 
Realty Co., State Bank & Trust Co., F. Zimmerman Co., F, Zim- 
merman Realty Co., United Mines Corporation Co., Kinsman Ice 
Cream Co.; member Athletic Club. 

SMITH, John William; attorney; born, Cleveland, O., May 15, 
1880; son of J. A. and Marietta Edmondston Smith; educated, Ohio 
Wesleyan University, A. B., 1902; Western Reserve University, B. 
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St. John; issue, Frederick Whitman Smith, William Eichard Smith; 
Cleveland Business University, Born Steel Eange Co.; member of 
firm Smith, Taft & Arter; member Cleveland Eeal Estate Board, 
Athletic, and Tippecanoe Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce, 

SMITH, Matthew; pres. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; born, 
County Tyrone, Ireland, Nov. 9, 1856; educated in the National 
schools of Ireland; married, 1887, to Irene M. French, of Cleveland; 
issue, two sons and two daughters; came to the United States in 
1872, and entered the employ of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea 
Co., starting with addressing envelopes until 1880, when he was 
sent to Cleveland to take charge of the business here, operating 
thirteen large stores; now sole proprietor of these and other stores; 
vice pres. and director the Schafer-Suhr Coal Co.; member Emanuel 
Episcopal Church and vestryman; Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M.; 
past high priest of Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, E. A. M.; member 
Cleveland Council, No. 36, E. & S. M.; past commander Holyrood 
Commandery, No. 32, K. T.; member all the Scottish Eite bodies and 
of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine; also 33rd degree, of 
northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U. S.; treas. Masonic Temple 
Ass'n; summer home at Salida Beach, Mentor, O. 

SMITH, William A. C; pres. The Ohio Quarries Co.; born, Che- 
banse, 111., Dec. 15, 1876; son of William and Frances M. Eice 
Smith; educated, public schools, Chebanse, 111., and one year at 
Academy, North-Western University, Evanston, 111.; married, Dav- 
enport, la., Sept. 12, 1889, Nettie Grant; issue, three children, 
Janet, 11, Helen, 6, Eichard Murray, 4; two years clerked in gen- 
eral store; two years in Chicago National Bank; 1901-1906, sales- 
man, auditor, sec'y and treas. The Bedford Quarries Co. of Chi- 
cago; 1903-1906, treas. The Ohio Quarries Co.; 1907, moved to 
Cleveland as gen. mgr. of the Ohio Quarries Co.; in 1910, made 
pres., also pres. and director of The Lorain & Southern E. E. Co.; 
member Episcopal Church, Euclid, and City Clubs. Eecreations: 
Golf, Fishing and Hunting. 

SMITH, William Grant; railway express business; born. Fox 
Lake, Wis., Aug. 24, 1861; son of Lewis and Fannie A. Stevens 
Smith; educated, public schools and Eipon College, Wisconsin; 
fmarried, Medford, Mass., June 25, 1902, Martha Chapin Wilcox; 
one daughter, Josephine Wilcox Smith; in 1879, entered the em- 
ployment of The American Express Co.; appointed supt. Wisconsin 
Division, 1892; same position for Michigan in 1895; asst. gen. agt. 
at Omaha, Neb. 1902; 2nd asst. to gen. manager, Chicago, 111., 1903; 
asst. to vice pres. and gen. mgr., Chicago, HI., 1906; mgr. Central 
Dept., Cleveland, 1910; member of Illinois Society, Sons of Amer- 
ican Eevolution; member Union, Automobile, and Congregational 
Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce, Congregational and Union 
League Clubs, of Chicago. Eecreation: Motoring. 

SMITH, Wilson George; composer, pianist; born, Elyria, Ohio, 
Aug. 19, 1855; son of George Troupe and Calista M. Smith; gradu- 



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ated Cleveland public schools; began musical education in Cincin- 
nati, 1875, under Otto Singer; studied in Berlin, 1880-1882, under 
Kullak, Kiel, Seharwenka, Moszkowski and Oscar Eaif; married 
Mez Brett (artist and writer), of Ohio, April 16, 1883; since 1882, 
engaged as teacher of piano, voice and composition; also musical 
litterateur, editor and critic, Cleveland Press, since 1902; held im- 
portant official positions in Music Teachers' National Ass'n; piano 
compositions (several hundred) include books of piano studies, 
transcriptions and editorial revisions of classic and modern works; 
also composer many popular songs. 

SMITHNIGHT, Louis; retired; born. Saxony, Germany, Dec. 16, 
1834; son of Frederick and Auralia (Woolford) Smithuight; public 
school education in Germany; came to the United States at 15; 
married, 1866, Nettie Kingsley of Cleveland; surviving issue, one 
daughter; after a brief period in Columbus, O., came to Cleveland 
for A. J. Weuham, dry goods, for seven years; in 1858, went to 
Pike's Peak, Col., to search for gold; being unsuccessful, returned 
to Cleveland, and opened a drug store, which conducted business 
until 1892; still own store at 2511 E. 9th St.; enlistea in 1861 as a 
private in the Cleveland Light Artillery; became corporal, took 
part in many engagements, and captured the first Confederate 
cannon (now in the Public Square of Cleveland); after three 
months, returned to Cleveland; re-enlisted in 1862, in the Army of 
the Cumberland, under Gen. Eosecrans; served until 1863, retiring 
as captain, account disability; in 1873, reorganized the Cleveland 
Light Artillery, as commander; later organization was known as 
Battery A; organized the Ottawa Shooting Club, near Sandusky, 
O.; member Chamber of Commerce, Concordia Lodge, F. & A. M., 
Grand Army of the Kepublic; Eevenue Inspector of the U. S. two 
years for Ohio, Michigan and Indiana; three years State Inspector 
of oil; always held a prominent place in Military circles. 

SMYTHE, Alfred Burns; banking and real estate; born, Nevada, 
O., Aug. 4, 1874; son of Marcus and Mary Burns Smythe; educated, 
common schools and Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College, Oberlin, 
O.; married, Oil City, Pa., Nov. 13, 1902, Catherine Loomis; issue, 
two sons, mgr. Keal Estate Dept. of The Cleveland Trust Co.; pres. 
The Land Security Co., The Loop Eealty Co., The Seneca Security 
Co. 

SNIDEB, Martin; pres. the Interstate Cooperage Co.; born, 
Dayton, O., Aug. 16, 1846; educated in the public schools; started 
in the cooperage business in Dayton, O., with his father; came to 
Cleveland, 1871, and continued the business until 1878; then with 
the Standard Oil Co., as mgr. of the Cooperage Dept.; elected pres. 
of the Interstate Cooperage Co., 1904; still serving; pres. the 
Snider-Hughes Co., Guarantee Title & Trust Co.; treas. Eiverside 
Cemetery Ass'n; director the Cleveland Trust Co.; interested in 
a number of other corporations; member Union, Euclid and Eoad- 
side Clubs; and Ohio Society, New York; Eepublican. 



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SNYDER, Harvey E.; attorney; born, Mapletou, O., Oct. 17, 
1880; son of John J. and Maria Shearer Snyder; educated, Harvard 
College, A. B., 1905; Harvard Law School, LL. B., 1908; married. 
Alliance, O., March 20, 1910, Mary Charlotte Bracher; issue, one 
daughter, Mary Katherine Snyder; practising law in Cleveland since 
1909; member Masonic Societies, and Alpha Nu Chapter of Alpha 
Tau Omega Fraternity; member Harvard Varsity Club; coach of 
Western Reserve University football team seasons 1911-1912-1913 
as a recreation and diversion; coached Oberliu College team 1906- 
1910. 

SNYDER, John Royal; attorney-at-law; born. Stark County, O., 
Feb. 11, 1876; son of John J. and Maria Shearer Snyder; educated, 
Mt. Union, 1899, A. B., Junior Scholarship prize; Harvard, 1909, 
L. B. ; married, Massillon, Gertrude Smith; treas. Stark County, 
1902-1906; deputy county treas. 1899-1902; treas. City of Canton, 
1902-1904; member B. P. O. E., No. 68, F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., 
No. 39; Jr. O. U. A. M., No. 60, and A. T. O. Fraternity. Recrea- 
tions: Tennis, Baseball and Football. 

SOIjIiMANN, Torald Hermann; physician; born, Coburg, Ger- 
many, Feb. 10, 1874; son of August and Adelhaid (Eckhardt) SoU- 
mann; educated, gymnasium, Coburg, 1884-1888, special studies, 
1888-1893; student of pharmacy, chemistry and medicine, Paris, 
France, 1893-1894; M. D., Western Reserve University, 1896; spec- 
ial studies, Strassburg, summer, 1899; married Alice M. Sersall, of 
Warren, Pa., June, 1902; demonstrator physiology, 1895-1899, lec- 
turer pharmacology, 1898-1901, asst. prof, pharmacology and ma- 
teria mediea, 1901-1904, prof, since 1904, Western Reserve Medical 
College; member council on pharmacy and chemistry, A. M. A. 
Author: Textbook of Pharmacology with Some Allied Science (2d 
edition), 1906; (with R. A. Hatcher) Textbook of Materia Mediea, 
1904. Contributor to medical and scientific periodicals. 

SOMMER, Edward H.; umbrella mfr.; born, Cleveland, Jan. 
18, 1878; son of John and Christina Deist Sommer; educated, public 
schools (Hicks) and Spencerian Business College; married, Cleve- 
land, Nov. 28, 1907, Elsie M. Seidel; issue, two children, Edward 
John and Marjorie Elsie; conducting a business of fifty-one years 
standing, started in 1862, by John Sommer; retired in 1902; at 
2926 Lorain Ave., business outgrew quarters, so moved to 1870 W. 
25th St.; has the largest retail umbrella and cane store in Ohio; 
pres. and mgr. Edward H. Somner Co.; steward of St. Paul's Ger- 
man M. E. Church; member Chamber of Industry. 

SPECK, Early James; 6th City Tire Repair Co.; born, Columbus, 
O., Nov. 27, 1888; son H. J. and Marguerite E. Bird Speck; edu- 
cated, Dennison High School; graduated, 1906; married, Cleveland, 
June 19, 1912, Ruth E. Latto; five years in the efficiency depart- 
ment of The Pennsylvania R. R.; two years as asst. paymaster The 
National Malleable Castings Co.; one year in automobile tire busi- 



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ness, opening the largest individual tire and tire repair plant in 
the Middle West; sec'y and treas. The 6th City Tire Eepair Co.; 
member Masons, Elks, Phi Sigma Chi-Theta Nu Epsilon Fraternity 
and Athletic Club. Eecreations: Motoring and Football. 

SPENZER, John George; physician-chemist; born, Cleveland, 
Sept. 6, 1864; son of Peter I. and Mary T. Molloy Spenzer; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public and private schools, Adelbert College, 
Western Eeserve Medical College, M. D. 1884; University of Strass- 
burg, Germany, Ph. D., 1893; F. C. S., London, 1894j married, Cuya- 
hoga Falls, O., June 15, 1898, Minnie Elizabeth Kittelberger; one 
son and one daughter; some fifty scientific papers, of pharmaeal, 
chemical, toxicologic, pharmacologic and crystallographic interest 
from 1881; asst. in chemistry. Western Eeserve Medical College, 
1880-1884; at same time lecturer in chemistry in 1880-1884; asst. in 
chemistry and mineralogy, Adelbert College, M. D., Western Ee- 
serve, 1884; instructor in pharmacology and experimental thera- 
peutics, Medical Dept., Western Eeserve University, 1894-1896; 
same years professor of chemistry, Dental Dept., same University; 
professor of general and medical chemistry and pharmacology, 
Medical Dept., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1896-1910; Paris, 1894; 
Berne, 1895; asso. prof, of legal chemistry, Medical Dept., Western 
Eeserve University, 1910-1912; in 1912, asso. prof., same Univers- 
ity, of legal chemistry and medical jurisprudence; also prof, of 
chemistry at Eeserve School of Pharmacy in 1912; member Philo- 
matie Society of Alsace, Germany; German Chemical Society; Fel- 
low English Chemical Society and American Association for the 
Advancement of Science; hoi. )rary member Ohio Pharmaceutical 
Ass'n, Cleveland Pharmaceutical Ass'n; member Cleveland Chem- 
ical Society, Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical 
Society, and American Medical Ass'n. 

SPICER, Dembe M., M. D.; physician and surgeon; born, La 
Grange, O., Dec. 8, 1877; son of Perry D. and Sarah E. French 
Spicer; educated, common schools and High School, La Grange, 
O. ; graduated, 1896, Western Eeserve University, Medical Dept.; 
1889-1904, degree of M. D.; married. La Grange, O., Sept. 28, 1904, 
Josie W. Kelmer; one daughter, Euth Spicer; district physician, 
appointed April, 1911, Ohio National Guard, 1899-1900; general 
practice of medicine from 1905 to the present time; examiner for 
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.; appointed in 1911; mem- 
ber Cleveland Academy of Medicine and Ohio State Medical Soci- 
ety, and American Medical Ass'n; member Phi Eho Sigma (Med- 
ical School Fraternity); Woodmen of the World, Fraternal Mystic 
Circle, Fraternal Order of Orioles; member Olivet Baptist Church. 

SPRAGUE, Edwin D.; sewer contractor; born, Cleveland, April 
16, 1873; son of Ellis D. and Mary Weideman Sprague; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, June 22, 1910, Jean- 
nette Meermans; worked two years for himself, then for fifteen 
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ing sewer, drainage new court house, Lake Shore blvd., foot 79th 
St., and bridge at Wade Park lower drive; member Cuyahoga 
Lodge, No. 22, I. O. O. ¥.; L. O. M. Eecreations: Baseball and 
Bowling; for a number of years one of Cleveland's favorite vaude- 
ville entertainers. 

SPRAGUE, Ernest M.; mgr. American Bridge Co.; born, Farm- 
ington, Mich., Oct. 20, 1865; son of Lorenzo and Laura G. Mead 
Sprague; educated. University of Michigan, 1888, B. S., C. E.; 
married, Denver, Col., March 8, 1901, Maude Sill; issue, two chil- 
dren; six years with Chicago & N. W. E. R., asst. engineer; since 
1894, with American Bridge Co., and affiliated companies; last eight 
years, mgr. Cleveland branch; member American Society Civil En- 
gineers, Masonic Order, Athletic Club. Eecreation: Golf. 

SPRAGUE, Franklin John; dentist; born, Wellsville, N. Y., 1868; 
son of William and Elmina Norton Sprague; educated, public 
schools, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y.; Dental Depart- 
ment, Western Eeserve University, degree D. D. S.; married, 1879, 
Lucy Amanda Emmons; one daughter, Dorothy Sprague; two years 
sec'y Cleveland Dental Society; pres. same organization one year; 
member Cleveland and Ohio State Dental Societies. 

SPRIGGS, Charles H.; realty and building; born, Washington 
County, Pa., Oct. 2, 1875; of Scotch-English ancestry, and ances- 
tors on both sides of family prominent in Eevolution and War of 
1812; p blic school education; married, 1908, Miss Olive Carter, of 
Waynesburg, Pa.; two daughters; politically a Progressive Eepub- 
lican; business career, with the Second National Bank of Pitts- 
burgh, resigning on account of poor health, and engaged in the 
real estate business in the southwest; returning east, became asso- 
ciated with one of the largest real estate firms in New York City; 
impressed with the wonderful real estate opportunities in Cleve- 
land, he located here, in the firm of C. H. Spriggs & Co.; the firm 
is incorporated as The Commonwealth Eealty & Building Co.; mgr. 
and director the Alliance Brick Co., Alliance, O.; member The Na- 
tional Eeal Estate Ass'n, Cleveland Real Estate Board, and Lake- 
wood Chamber of Commerce; has traveled extensively in this 
country, Canada and Mexico, studying real estate conditions, and 
causes of civic growth and increase in property values. 

SPRIGGS, E. Loomis; realty and building; born, Washington, 
Pa., Oct. 17, 1880; son of Edward and Josephine E. Greenlee 
Spriggs; educated, Ohio Northern University, Ada, O.; treas. The 
Commonwealth Eealty & Building Co.; identified with the agency 
force of The Pittsburgh Life & Trust Co.; subsequently in the Fed- 
eral service at Pittsburgh until 1906, when he resigned, to become 
associated with his brother, C. H. Spriggs, as Cleveland real estate 
operators; this partnership became the basis for the formation of 
The Commonwealth Realty & Building Co.; member Lakewood 
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gressive Republican in politics; his ancestors among the first sett- 
lers of the colonies of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and promi- 
nent in the War of 1812. 

SPROSTY, A. B.; jeweler and optician; born, Cleveland, 1873; 
grammar and high school education; watchmaker by trade, and 
has been in the jewelry business for fifteen yerrs; pres. The Elec- 
tra Pure Water Co.; councilman from the 13th ward, 1910-1911; 
member of K. of P. and past chancellor; member of the Orders of 
Moose and Eagles and the Bohemian Order, C. S. P. S., and of the 
Bohemian Turners Sokol Ceee. 

SPURNEY, Albert F.; surgeon; born, Cleveland, Jan. 20, 1864; 
son of Anton and Mary Havlicek Si)urney; educated in public 
schools, Western Reserve Medical College; married, Cleveland, Oct. 
15, 1890, Pauline Sykora; three children; gynecologist, St. Luke's 
Hospital; member American Medical Ass'n, Ohio State Medical 
Ass'n, Cleveland Academy of Medicine; 32nd degree Mason; K. 
of P.; member Cleveland Athletic and Colonial Clubs. 

SQUIRE, Andrew; lawyer; born, Oct. 21, 1850; Mantua, Portage 
County, O.; son of Dr. Andrew Jackson and Martha (Wilmot) 
Squire; educated, public schools and Western Reserve Eclectic In- 
stitute, Hiram, O.; 1866-1867, took a course of medical lectures in 
Cleveland; graduated from Hiram College in 1872, came to Cleve- 
land, and began the study of law in the office of Cadwell & Mar- 
vin; admitted to the bar in 1873; three years partnership with 
Mr. Marvin; then in the firm of Marvin, Squire & Hart; withdrew 
and formed a partnership with Mr. Estep; in 1882, firm became 
Estep, Dickey & Squire; in January, 1890, formed partnership of 
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; recent years devoted time largely to 
corporation practice; director of the Bank of Commerce of North 
America; Citizens Savings & Trust Co.; Cleveland Stone Co.; and 
other corporations; trustee Garfield Memorial Ass'n; Republican; 
33rd degree Mason; member University, Country and Union Clubs, 
Cleveland, and University and New York Clubs, New York City; 
member the American and International Bar Associations. 

STALEY, Cady; engineer; born, Minaville, N. Y., Dee. 12, 1840; 
son of Harmanus and Eveline (Darrow) Stalev; A. B., Union Col- 
lege, 1865; C. E., 1866; Ph. D., 1874 (LL. D., 1888, Ohio Wesleyan, 
1888); married Kate Holcomb, of Waterford, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1869; 
one of the engineers in building the Central Pacific R. R.; prof, 
civil engineering, 1868-1886; dean of faculty, 1876-1886, Union Col- 
lege; pres. Case School Applied Science, Cleveland, 1886-1902; 
traveling member American Society Civil Engineers. Author: 
The Separate System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson). 

STAND ART, Henry Needham; public accountant; born. New 
Albany, Ind., May 25, 1868; son of George Henry and Myra B. 
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a prominent attorney, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar, March 
11, 1897; married, Columbus, O., June 12, 1895, Bertha Bassett 
Browne; at the age of 14, entered the employ of the Standard Oil 
Co.; continued with them for about twenty years; for six years, 
held the position of senior accountant, for nine years, chief ac- 
countant in their office at Columbus, O.; two years, sec'y and treas. 
the H. H. Hessler Co.; for seven years, has been engaged in the 
practice of public accounting; director and sec'y The Fred A. Lee 
Realty Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Credit Mens 
Ass'n, Tyrian Lodge, Masonic Temple; in 1850, his grandfather, 
Needham Maynard Standart, became a resident of Cleveland, 
building the old homestead on Detroit Ave., between Waverly and 
Gordon Aves.; this house is still one of the city's landmarks. 
Recreations: Boating and Long Distance Walking. 

STANLEY, Welles Kirk; lawyer; born, Portsmouth, Nov. 12, 
1873; son of Rev. T. W. and Amanda Kirk Stanley; A. B., Ohio 
Wesleyan University, 1895; LL. B., Yale University, 1900; married, 
Cleveland, June 8, 1905, Grace Hiles; issue, one daughter, Ann; in 
the office of Attorney W. H. Boyd three years; formed partnership 
with P. L. A. Lieghley in October, 1911; sec'y the Lewis Jewelry 
Co., the A. J. Fawcett Co., the W. H, Noble Co.; member Beta 
Theta Pi, Book and Gavel (Yale), Cleveland Athletic Club. 

STEAENS, Arthur Adelbert; attorney; born, Olmsted, O., July 
IS, 1858; son of Edmund and Anna J. Marsh Stearns; educated, 
Buchtel College, A. B.-A. M., honorary degree LL. D., Harvard Law 
School; issue, three children; business connections, 1884-1890, 
Stearns & Kelley; 1902-1904, Stearns & Chamberlain; 1904-1909, 
Carr, Stearns, Chamberlain & Royon; 1909, Stearns, Chamberlain & 
Royon; sec'y Cleveland Bar Ass'n, 1890 to 1898; 1905, pres. Cleve- 
land Bar Ass'n; trustee Buchtel College; member Chamber of Com- 
merce and Union Club. Author of "Stearns on Suretyship" 
(1903), "Annotated Cases on Suretyship" (1907). 

STEHN, George Gustav; florist; born, Germany, Sept. 17, 1861; 
son of William Stehn; mother's maiden name, Dreesfen; served 
one year, 1880, at De Loues Tomological Institute in Reuteingen, 
Germany; received first-class diploma; married, Manchester, N. H., 
Jan. 11, 1893, Anna Emelie Liebing; issue, three children; served 
four years in Ulan Regiment, King Charles, No. 19, Stuttgart, 
Wurtemberg, under Count Ferdinand Von Feypelia; advanced to 
corporal; has worked as florist in New York, Boston and Cleveland; 
educated as teacher of physical education in Normal School of 
North America, at Indianapolis, Ind., 1890; graduated with first- 
class diploma; taught for twenty years in different cities, a num- 
ber of years in Cleveland; ten years ago went into the florist busi- 
ness again; teacher of physical education Star Turnverns, for four- 
teen years; one of the directors of Turnverns Business Ass'n for 
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STEPHENS, Jesse; attorney; born, Wood County, Feb. 9, 1865; 
son of David and Elizabeth Bonam Stephens; educated, Fostoria 
Academy and The Ohio Northern University; read law with the 
Hon. Thomas N. Bierly, of Tdedo; admitted to the bar in 1889; 
married, Fremont, O., 1887, Miss Belle Clark; issue, two sons, 
A. A. and Clarence Clark Stephens; practiced law in Fostoria, O., 
for twenty years, attaining a high place in the legal profession; 
particularly noted as trial lawyer, having tried some of the most 
important eases in Northwestern Ohio; has never sought political 
honors, although urged to become a candidate for District Judge 
and Congressman from the 13th district; because of increasing 
clientele in Cuyahoga County, came to Cleveland, and began prac- 
ticing with his son, A. A. Stephens, a graduate of Western Eeserve 
Law School; counsel and director The Commonwealth Eealty & 
Building Co., The Seneca Coal Co., Fostoria, O., counsel The Toledo, 
Fostoria & Findlay Electric E. E. Co., Toledo; The Union National 
Bank, Fostoria, and The Atlas Mnfg. Co., and The Peabody Buggy 
Co., all of Fostoria; member Pemberville Lodge, No. 516, F. & A, 
M., since 1889; his family were among the early settlers of Mary- 
land and Western Pennsylvania, Scotch-Irish-German descent; ac- 
tive in Colonial cause during the Eevolution. 

STEELING, Frederick Augustine; merchant; born, Chapinville, 
Conn., May 26, 1831; son of Frederick Augustine and Caroline 
Mary (Dutcher) Sterling; educated, public and private schools, 
Geneva, N. Y.; married, Meadville, Pa., May 13, 1856, Emma Betts; 
Issue, one son, living in Erie, Pa.; merchant in Cleveland since 
1850; connected with T. S. Beckwith & Co., Beckwith, Sterling & 
Co., Sterling & Co., The Sterling & Welch Co., pres. the Sterling & 
Welch Co., director Union National Bank; director Citizens Sav- 
ings & Trust Co.; vice pres. Cleveland Burial Case Co.; pres. 
Board of Trustees, Second Presbyterian Church; member Union 
and Country Clubs. Favorite pastime: Golf. 

STERN, Joseph L.; attorney; born, Toledo, O., Sept. 24, 1882; 
son of Adolph and Eosa Friedlander Stern; educated, Cleveland 
grammar and High School (West); studied law in the office of 
L. F. McGarth, Cleveland, and admitted to practice law in Decem- 
ber, 1903; married, Cleveland, Feb. 28, 1907, Fannie Brown; one 
son, Eobert William Stern; one daughter, Euth Dorothy Stern; 
served two terms as solicitor for the Village of Nottingham, O., 
Dec. 1903, entered law practice with L. F. McGarth, under firm 
name of McGarth & Stern; in Oct. 1909, partnership dissolved, 
and began to practice alone; is now located in the Leader-News 
Bldg.; associated with him is M. E. Dickey, Jr.; member Chamber 
of Commerce, and Knights of Pythias, Cleveland Independent Aid 
Society, Forest Ci'ty Lodge, F. & A. M., Webb Chapter, and Auto- 
mobile Club; has lived in Cleveland since 1883. 

STERN, Walter G-.; physician (orthopedic surgeon); born, Chat- 
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Stern; educated, Adalbert College, B. A., W. E. U., Medical College, 
M. D., University of Vienna; post graduate course, Eoyal General 
Hospital, Vienna; married, Milwaukee, Wis., May 27, 1903, Lora 
B. Baer; issue, two children, Bernard and Marjorie; orthopedic 
surgeon, Children's Fresh Air Camp, 1902-1908; Mount Siana Hos- 
pital, 1902; Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1903; lecturer on 
Orthopedic Surgery at the Cleveland College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, of Ohio Wesleyan University, 1903-1911; chairman of 
the Clinical Pathological section of the Cleveland Academy of 
Medicine, 1907; also pres. of the German Medical Society, Cleve- 
land; fellow of the American Orthopedic Ass'n; fellow of the 
American Medical Ass'n; member of the Central States Orthopedic 
Club; sec'y medical staff, Mt. Siana Hospital, 1902-1910; ortho- 
pedic surgeon for the Orphaned Infants' Home, Cleveland, 1903; 
honorary member, Erie County, Pa., Medical Society; pupil of 
Prof. Adolph Lorenz, orthopedic surgeon, Eoyal General Hospital, 
Vienna; member Excelsior Club, Cleveland. 

STEVENS, Alfred J.; oil business; born, Cleveland, July 28, 
1867; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Oc- 
tober, 1894, Agnes E. Eowan; issue, one son; has been in the oil 
and grease business twenty-seven years; pres. The Stevens Grease 
& Oil Co.; member Elks, Chamber of Commerce, Athletic, Auto, and 
Gun Clubs. 

STEVENS, Edwin Augustus; painting contractor; born, Cam- 
bridgeport, 1862; son of Edwin Augustus and Sarah E. Lincoln 
Stevens; educated, private schools, Cleveland, 1868-1870; Ken- 
tucky St. School, 1870-1878; Forest City Business College, 1878- 
1879; married, Cleveland, June 14, 1893, Carrie S. Penney, of Sag- 
inaw, Mich.; issue, three daughters; painting contractor; in 1895, 
succeeded his father, who established the business in 1866; busi- 
ness incorporated March 11, 1912; Edwin A. Stevens, pres.; vice 
pres., Frank E. Marvin; sec'y and treas., Carrie S. Stevens; direc- 
tors, Hylas S. Janes, John H. Smart; member Builders' Exchange, 
house committee. Unitarian Church, and usher of Unitarian Church; 
member Knights of Pythias, B. P. O. Elks, members Elks Club. 
Eeereations: Motoring and at summer cottage with family. 

STEVENS, J. A.; insurance; born, June 20, 1868, at O'Magh 
County, Tyrone, Ireland; received liberal education, including a 
course in science and art dept. of National Education of United 
Kingdom; engaged in educational work abroad and in the United 
States for four years; at the age of 22, adopted the life insurance 
business as a profession; organized The Universal Life Insurance 
Co., of Cleveland, in 1911; at present hold following positions, sec'y 
and gen. mgr. The Universal Life Insurance Co.; pres. Pioneer Life 
Insurance Co. of America; member Athletic Club. 

STEWART, George Neil; university prof.; born, London, Can., 
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Stewart; A, M., University of Edinburgh, 1883, B. S., 1886, D. Sc, 
1887, M. B. and C. M., 1889, M. D. 1891; D. P. H., University of 
Cambridge, Eng., 1890; married; demonstrator of physiology, 
Owens College, Manchester, Eng., 1887-1889; George Henry Lewes 
student, University of Cambridge, 1889-1893; examiner in physi- 
ology, University of Aberdeen, 1891-1894; instructor Harvard Med- 
ical School, 1893-1894; prof, physiology and histology, Western 
Keserve University, 1894-1903; prof, physiology. University of Chi- 
cago, 1903-1907; prof, experimental medicine, Western Keserve Uni- 
versity since 1907; member Physiology Society (Eng.), American 
Physiology Sociiety, American Pharmacology Society. Author: 
Manual of Physiology, 1896, 6th edition, 1910. 

STILBER, Peter; florist; corn, Austria-Hungary, Jan. 13, 1871; 
son ot Peter and Catherine Miller Stilber; educated, public schools, 
Hungary; married, Hungary, Jan. 13, 1897, Erma CoUen; issue, two 
children; 1906-1910, with Fred Burger, florist; owner of own busi- 
ness and is in the same location where he first started; decorator 
and designer; member Home Guards of America, No. 44; Metro- 
politan; member Limberger Bicycle Club, and Hungarian Church. 

STOCKWELIi, John Nelson; astronomical mathematician; born, 
Northampton, Mass., April 10, 1832; son of William and' Clarissa 
(Whittemore) Stockwell; educated, common schools, Brecksville, 
O.; (hon. A. M., 1862, Ph. D., 1876, Western Eeserve); married 
Sarah Healy, of Brecksville, O., Dec. 6, 1855; known for original 
investigations in astronomy. Author: Memoir on the Secular Var- 
iations of the Planetary Orits, in Smithsonian Contributions to 
Knowledge, 1872; Stock and Interest Tables, 1873; Tax Tables, 
1903; Eclipse-Cycles; Theory of the Mutual Perturbations of Plan- 
ets Moving at the Same Mean Distance from the Sun, and Its 
Bearing on the Constitution of Saturn's Eings and the Cosmogony 
of Laplace. Contributor American and foreign scientific journals. 

STOKE, U. S. (J.; mfr.; born, Tyrone, Pa., May 9, 1865; son of 
William and Margaret Wentz Stoke; public school and business 
college education; married, Cleveland, Dec. 29, 1887, Eose M. 
Lange; began as mill foreman for Woods- Jenks Lumber Co.; mill 
foreman W. I. Lindsay; mill foreman Mills-Carleton Co., mill No. 
2; 1902, formed stock company as the Lindsay Fence Co.; first as 
vice pres. and treas.; now pres. and treas. ; member Chamber of 
Commerce, Builders ' Exchange, and National Union. 

STONE, Warren Sanford; labor leader; born, Ainsworth, la., 
Feb. 1, 1860; son of John and Sarah Stone; educated, Washington 
Academy and Western College; married Carrie E. Newell, of 
Agency, la., Oct. 15, 1884; has spent entire railroad service with 
the Eock Island System, beginning as fireman, Sept. 27, 1879; pro- 
moted to engineer, April 12, 1884; appointed grand chief of the 
International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the death 
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meeting, 1904; member Industrial Peace Commission, which com- 
mission is the custodian of the Noliel Peace Prize. 

STOWE Charles Browne; pres. The Stowe-Fuller Co.; born, 
Cleveland, July 18, 1862; son of Thomas A. and Maria (McKenzie) 
Stowe; educated, Central High School, class of 1877; married, Nor- 
walk. Franc A. Cary; issue, three children; pres. National Fire 
Brick Co., Mirror Fire Brick Co.; director Lock Haven Fire Brick 
Co., Federal Kefractories Co.; member Cleveland Art, and Clifton 
Clubs. 

STREITBERGER, Jacob; born, June 23, 1871; Germany; son of 
.Jacob and Carolyn Streitberger; educated, Germany; married, 
Meadville, Pa., July 4, 1895, Lena Duer; three children; member 
Eagles and Foresters. 

STRIMPLE, Theodore L.; lawyer; born, Richland, O., April 25, 
1859; son of John and Mary Elizabeth Viers Strimple; educated, 
Baldwin University; graduated class of 1884, degree of Ph. B.; 
married, Cleveland, June, 1892, Allie L. "Wright; issue, Pauline M., 
age 18 years, and Theodore Lawrence, age 16 years; county school 
examiner, 1888 to 1891; prosecuting atty., 1894-1898; Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas of the third Subdivision of the Fourth 
Judicial District of Ohio from Feb. 9, 1899, to Jan. 1, 1911; school 
teacher and educator until admitted to the bar in June of 1886; 
practiced law; firm name of Wilcox & Strimple, until he became 
asst. prosecuting atty., in 1891; retired from the Bench in January, 
1911; has been practicing law since; Masonic, veteran member of 
Forest City Lodge, No. 388, F. & A. M.; Lake Shore Lodge, No. 6, 
K. of P.; member Chamber of Commerce, and Colonial Club. 

STRONG, Edgar E.; merchant; born, Connecticut, 1841; son of 
William C. and Lucy M. Nicholas Strong; educated. Seminary at 
East Greenwich, R. I.; left school to enter the army in 1862; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, January, 1869, Mary Ella Clarke; issue, four chil- 
dren, two living; entered the army in 1862, as a private in the 16th 
Regiment, Conn. Vol. Infantry; promoted to 2nd lieut., Dec. 2-5, 
1862, and to 1st Lieut., May 2, 1863; further promotions impossible, 
owing to requirements being reduced in numbers to a point which 
prohibited promotions; honorably discharged at close of war; in 
1887, engaged in the mill supply business in a co-partnership, under 
the firm name of Strong, Carlise & Turney; in 1893, incorporated 
under the name of The Strong, Carlise & Turney Co.; in 1898, the 
Corporation name was changed to the Strong, Cariise & Hammond 
Co.; in 1908, organized and incorporated The Clark Mnfg. Co.; pres. 
The Strong, Carlise & Hammond Co., and The Clark Mnfg. Co.; 
veteran member of Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., and Cleveland Chap- 
ter, R. A. M.; Military Order The Loyal Legion and the Grand 
Army of the Republic; member Cleveland Yacht Club. Recrea- 
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STRONG, Emmet J.; hardware; born, Huntsburg, O., Jan. 31, 
1862; son of Lyman and Ludia Curtis Strong; educated, public 
schools and Austinburg; married, June 7, 1893, Lenora Goodwin; 
issue; two sons, Lester, 17, and Stuart, 9; in 1893, organized The 
Curtiss Steel Eoofing Co., located at Niles, O.; in 1900, reorganized 
and enlarged the business, moving to Zanesville, O., building a 
sheet and steel mill, operating under the name of The Muskingum 
Valley Steel Co.; in 1902, sold out in the above company, and came 
to Cleveland, purchasing an interest in the J. M. and L. A. Os- 
born Co.; connected with this firm as vice pres. and director; 
member Chamber of Commerce, Y. M. C. A., and Hough Avenue 
Congregational Church. 

STROUD, Edwin Gerrish; engineer and contractor; born, Bon- 
field, 111., Jan. 31, 1878; son of Thomas and Jane Pearson Gerrish 
Stroud; educated, public schools. Seminary and Purdue University, 
B. S., in M. E., 1899; married, Cleveland, Oct. 15, 1902, Cora L. 
Campbell; issue, one son, Thomas Douglas Stroud (age 6); fifteen 
years engineering and business experience, having established and 
built up two complete companies; pres. The Cleveland Engineering 
Agency Co. (technical employment agency); pres. The E. G. Stroud 
Company (building contractors); member American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, Ohio Society of Mechanical, Electrical and 
Steam Engineers; member K. of P. (lola Lodge, No. 84, Dayton), 
Recreations: Automobiling and Bowling. 

STUTSON, Willis; sales mgr. The Oldsmobile Co.; born, Lan- 
caster, O., Jan. 28, 1884; son of Alverd and Emma Stutson; edu- 
cated, Asheville schools, Asheville, N. C; married, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
April 23, 1905, Ethel Crozier; issue, one daughter, Elizabeth Stut- 
son; 1904-1905, special agt. New York Life Insurance Co., travel- 
ing out of Dayton, O.; 1905, 1906, 1907, has his own insurance 
business, writing general lines in Washington Court House, O.; 
1909-1910, traveling salesman, out of Cleveland, for The White 
Co.; 1910-1911-1912, branch mgr. of The Winton Motor Carriage 
Co., at Columbus, O.; at present sales mgr. for The Oldsmobile Co.; 
member B. P. O. E., Washington Court House, O., Lodge; member 
Automobile, and Advertising Clubs. 

SULLIVAN, Jeremiah Jay; banker; born, Fulton, Stark County, 
Nov. 16, 1844; educated, village schools; enlisted 3rd Ohio Bat- 
tery, 1862; mustered out as sergeant, 1865; moved to Millersburg, 
1866; engaged in general merchandise until 1878; elected state 
senator by Democratic party, 1879; served two terms; entered 
hardware business in Millersburg in 1883; re-elected state senator; 
national bank examiner 1887; came to Cleveland in 1889 and or- 
ganized Central National Bank; served as treas., cashier, vice pres., 
pres., 1900; pres. Chamber of Commerce, 1893; member Union, 
Country, Roadside, Colonial, and Euclid Clubs; married, 1873, Se- 
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SULLIVAN, John J.; attorney; born, New York City, Oct. 25, 
1860; son of Daniel J. and Mary (Sheehan) Sullivan; came to 
Trumbull County, O., at the age of 12; educated, common schools, 
and Academy at Gustavus, O.; married, Dec. 28, 1886, Warren, O., 
Olive S. Taylor, daughter of the late Matthew B. Taylor of 
Warren, O., prominent banker of Warren and former partner of 
Ex-Gov. Tod and J. V. N. Yates of Cleveland; issue, two daughters, 
Adaline and Mary Sullivan; Prosecuting Attorney, two terms, 
Trumbull Co.; State Senator, two terms, Trumbull-Mahoning Sen- 
atorial District of Ohio; United States atty. nine years; appointed 
by President McKinley; re-appointed by President Eoosevelt; 
special counsel to the Atty.-General of the United States, in cases 
vs. The Standard Oil Co.; and National Committeeman for State 
of Ohio, National Progressive Party; presented, when a member 
of the Ohio Senate, the names of M. A. Hanna and J. B. Foraker 
to that body on the occasion of their election to the United States 
Senate; while U. S. atty., represented the U. S. Government in 
the prosecution of Cassie Chadwick case, and in the prosecution 
and conviction of twelve other defendants in National Bank cases; 
since retiring from official positions, actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of law; acted as associate counsel for the defense in the ac- 
quittal of the wall paper cases of Cleveland, and the insurance 
capes; member Athletic, and Union Clubs; member of all the 
Masonic bodies, Elk. 

SULZMANN, John M.; cigar mufr.; born, Cleveland, Dec. 4, 
1869; son of Maximilian and Christina Ansenhofer Sulzmann; edu- 
cated, St. Joseph's School, 7th grade; married, Cleveland, Nov. 25, 
1890, Emma Eeiblers; issue, fourteen children; member City Coun- 
cil from 5th District, 1901-1903; eouneilman-at-large, Jan. 1, 1912, 
to Jan. 1, 1914; during his career as councilman has introduced a 
number of ordinances of importance, regarding traffic regulations, 
the consideration of traffic policemen, the relief of the poor; was 
active in helping the late Mayor Tom L. Johnson secure three-cent 
fare for the City of Cleveland; active in the annexing of Brook- 
lyn, which gave the city its first municipal lighting plant; has 
worked hard for municipal ownership; has assisted Mr. Cooley in 
all his charitable enterprises, of which the city can boast; also for 
the obtaining of the Orange Ave. bath house, a municipal three- 
cent lodging house, settling tunnel workers ' strike, and thereby 
getting the work on the intake crib hastened, etc.; member C. M. 
B. A., Commercial Travelers, Fraternal Order of Elks, Eagles 
pres. of the Cigar Mfrs. Ass'n; director Personal Liberty League 
member Cleveland Bowling Club, Thistle Bowling Club, Buffalo 
Owl, and Tuxedo Clubs. 

SUNSHINE, David; merchant and mfr. ; born, Hungary, June 4, 
1871; son of Mark and Sarah Eosenbluth Sunshine; educated in 
schools of Hungarj^; came to this country in 1891; was hardware 
merchant in Hungary; for first three years in this country, was 
retail salesman; then traveling salesman for furnishing house; 

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later with Sunshine, Kohn & Kaufman; 1899, present corporation 
of the Sunshine Cloak & Suit Co., organized, of which he is vice 
pres.; pres. the Strauss Bros. Co. and the Progress Cloak Co.; 
member K. of P., I. O. O. F. 

SVOBODA, Frank J.; publisher; born, Bohemia, May 1, 1874; 
son of John and Mary Vild Svoboda; educated, Parochial school, 
"Our Lady of Lourdes, " Cleveland, O., and evening public schools; 
married, Cleveland, June 30, 1896, Josephine Holpuch; issue, four 
children; when 25 years of age, established a Bohemian Newspaper, 
The American, which has grown to a large publication; and is 
considered one of the best Bohemian newspapers in the United 
States; The American is the representative newspaper for the 
Bohemian people of Cleveland; director American Association of 
Foreign Newspapers of N. Y.; member First Catholic Central 
Union of the U. S., Gilmour Council, No. 310, K. of C, Court Co- 
lumbia, No. 1285, Catholic Order of Forresters; member Ben Frank- 
lin Club. 

SWASEY, Ambrose; manufacturer; born, Exeter, N. H., Dec. 
19, 1846; son of Nathaniel and Abigail Chesley (Peavey) Swasey; 
early education in schools of Exeter; degree of engineering Case 
School of Applied Science, 1905; Sc. D. Denison University, Gran- 
ville, O., 1910; married, Hampton, N. H., Oct. 24, 1871, Lavinia 
D. Marston, daughter of David and Sarah Ann (Dearborn) Mars- 
ton; entered into partnership with W. R. Warner (Warner & 
Swasey), 1880, mfrs. machine tools and astronomical instruments; 
the 36-inch Lick telescope, the 26-inch of Naval observatory, 
Washington, the 40-inch Yerkes telescope, as well as a new and 
exceptionally accurate dividing engine, are some of the firm's 
achievements; invented Swasey Range and Position Finder, 
adopted by the United States Government; pres. The Warner & 
Swasey Co., pres. the Caxton Building Co.; director the Cleveland 
Trust Co.; Chevalier Legion of Honor, France, 1900; trustee of 
Denison University, Granville, O. ; vice pres. Y. M. C. A.; past 
pres. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, N. Y.; past pres. 
the Cleveland Engineering Society; past pres. Chamber of Com- 
merce; member Institution of Mechanical Engineers of Great Bri- 
tain and British Astronomical Ass'n; fellow Royal Astronomical 
Society; member Country Club, Cleveland; Engineers' Club, N. 
Y., University Club, Washington. 

SWEENEY, Patrick Rodger; carpenter and builder; born, Ohio, 
May, 1852; son of Ferdinand and Mary Adams Sweeney; edu- 
cated. High School, La Grange, O.; married, Grafton, O., August, 
1883 Catherine Meskal; issue, four daughters; twice elected as- 
sessor, Carlisle Township, Lorain County, O., once township trus- 
tee, Newburg, O.; as building foreman, had full charge of construc- 
tion and alterations on Hotel Euclid; first and second floors, Meyer 
& Marks Block, Standard Foundry additions and alterations, block 
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Co.; business agt. Sweeney & Schully, two terms Carpenter Broth- 
erhood; chairman Carpenter Committee to pass on present building 
code; adjusting five losses for Stafford Goss Co.; two terms trustee 
Grafton Church; member Catholic Mutual Benevolent Ass'n; is now 
taking charge of building mostly for themselves and old customers 
in Lakewood. 

SWETLAND, Truman Monroe; real estate; born, Middlefield, 
N. Y., Feb. 20, 1848; son of Eli and Sophia McGregory Swetland; 
educated, public schools; married, Rochester, Nov. 30, 1871, Carrie 
Raymond Hamilton; issue, four sons; instrumental in organizing 
a company for the erection of several large oflfice buildings in 
Cleveland; treas. and gen. mgr. The Park Investment Co.; gen. 
mgr. The City Investment Co.; 32nd degree Mason; member the 
Pine Ridge Country Club, Isle of Pines, West Indies; fond of 
farming; in 16.57, the first Swetland, an Englishman, settled in 
Connecticut; he was master and owner of his own ship, "The 
James, ' ' in which he made the voyage to this country. 

SWIFT, Charles J.; insurance; born, Corry, Pa., Dec. 16, 1866; 
son of Charles J. and Hanna Ophelia Hopkins Swift; educated in 
Corry public schools; married, Cleveland, May 16, 1907, Catherine 
Pennoek Brooke; issue, one daughter, Alice Ophelia; organized 
firm of C. J. Swift & Co., in 1893; has built up one of largest in- 
dividual insurance agencies in Cleveland; member Iris Lodge, F. 
& A. M., Webb Chapter, R. A. M., Oriental Commandery, K. T., 
Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Temple; past chancellor K. 
of P. 

SYKORA, Joseph W.; lawyer; born, Bohemia, March 21, 1840; 
son of Wac. and Teska Sykora; educated, Bohemia, in the City of 
Pisek, college and university. City of Prague; and in Cleveland 
at the State Law School; married, Cleveland, Aug. 1, 1866; Jose- 
phine M. First; issue, ten children; admitted to the bar, July 3, 
1871; practicing attorney. 

SZEPESSY, Joseph L.; real estate and steamship agency; born, 
Kassa, Hungary; high school education; married, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
Jan. 16, 1889, Irene Balczer; issue, three sons, George, Theodore 
and Edward; staunch Republican, organizing many Republican 
clubs; elected decennial assessor in 19th Ward; instrumental in 
naturalizing thousands of his countrymen; first Hungarian real 
estate agt. in the city; through his efforts many of his countrymen 
acquired homes; organized several societies, which are still flourish- 
ing; founded the first Hungarian paper published in Cleveland, 
called Szabadsag (Liberty) ; long time director Woodland Ave. 
Savings & Trust Co., and instrumental in building up of branch on 
Buckeye Road; enthusiastic worker for the Hungarian Hospital 
project and moving spirit in purchase of the Gesangverein Bldg., 
on E. 55th St., where a magnificent hospital is to be built. 



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TABOR, Franklyn Breed; sec'y tlie Telling Bros. Co.; born, 
Titusville, Pa., Feb. 23, 1868; educated in the public schools of 
Painesville, O.; supt. the Painesville Water Works Co., 1893-1898; 
upon purchase by the city, was elected sec'y; served until 1899, 
when he moved to Cleveland; auditor the Telling Bros. Ice Cream 
Co., 1900-1903; upon the re-organization of the company in 1904, 
elected sec'y; still serving; sec'y and treas. Cable-Trace Co., and 
interested in other business enterprises; Republican. 

TAFT, Gilbert Leslie; U. S. Customs Oflace; born, Cleveland, 
July 26, 1873; son of Sherman B. and Isabella M. Duncan Taft; 
educated, Cleveland schools; married, Cleveland, Feb. 22, 1898, 
Thusnelda Schipke; issue, one sou. Homer S. and one daughter, 
Marjorie A.; chief examiner of merchandise, United States Cus- 
toms; member Masons, Sons of Veterans, and National Union. 

TAME, Alfred George; treas. Cleveland Trust Co.; born, Cleve- 
land, Feb. 7, 1869; son of A. F. and Ellen Latimer Tame; educated 
in the public schools, and Buchtel College, Akron, O.; graduated 
in 1890, B. S. degree; married, 1894, Clara Armstrong of Norwalk, 
O.; issue, four children; after finishing college, did journalistic 
work in Akron and Cleveland; in 1893, began as bookkeeper for the 
Old Arcade Bank; remained with the bank until it became the 
Euclid Ave. Trust Co.; was sec'y and treas. at the time of ita 
failure in 1902; went with the Cleveland Trust Co., and after a few 
months, became asst. sec'y and treas.; in 1906, elected treas. of 
the Cleveland Trust Co.; veteran member of Troop A; Republican; 
member Hermit, University, and Union Clubs, and the Chamber of 
Commerce. 

TANNEY, La Zell; attorney; born. West View, O., Oct. 8, 1862; 
son of LaCortes and Abbie E. Brooks Tanney; educated, Baldwin 
University, Berea, O., Oberlin College, Oberlin, O., graduated in 
law from Valparaiso, Ind.; with degree of LL. B.; married, De- 
catur, Ind., June 6, 1888, Cora Tricker; issue, one son, Leigh T. 
Tanney born Aug. 6, 1891; Cora Tricker Tanney died June 17, 1892; 
married, Lake Helen, Fla., May 6, 1894, Violetta Giddings; issue, 
one daughter, Florence M. Tanney, born Dec. 10, 1901, and died 
June 15, 1911; Violetta Giddings Tanney died in July, 1906; began 
the practice of law in Cleveland June 19, 1888, in The Wick Block; 
that building was torn down in 1912, so removed to The American 
Trust Bldg., and became associated as partner with A. W. Barber, 
in October, 1906; member I. O. O. F., K. of P. Recreation: Base- 
ball fan. 

TANYAN, James J.; Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.; born, Illinois, 
Nov. 14, 1874; educated in Chicago; married; has children; came to 
Cleveland ten years ago, as local mngr. for The Pittsburg Plate 
Glass Co., manufacturers of plate window glass, mirrors, paints, 
varnishes and brushes; member Knights of C^olumbus, B. P. O. E., 
Athletic, Rotary, Advertising, Tippecanoe, Lumber and Manufac- 
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TAYLOR, Alexander S.; real estate operator; born, Cleveland, 
April 3, 1869; son Virgil C. and Marguerite M. Sacket Taylor; 
educated, public schools and Brooks Military Academy, graduating 
in 1888; married, Cincinnati, O., May 16, 1894, Clara Therse Law; 
issue, one son, Virgil Corydon Taylor, second; served five years in 
the Gatling Gun Battery; never held political office; in 1911, was 
tendered directorship of public works under Mayor Baehr, and 
has been under consideration as Eepublican nominee for mayor; 
in 1892, became member of firm of V. C. Taylor & Son; 1908, 
elected pres. of Cleveland Eeal Estate Board; 1910, elected pres. 
of National Association of Real Estate Exchanges; director Guar- 
antee Title & Trust Co., The Bailey Realty Co., Cleveland Paper 
Box Co., Cleveland Collateral Loan Co.; pres. Coventry Road Land 
Co.; vice pres. The Wilbrandt Co.; treas. and director The United 
Realty & Investment Co., trustee The Cleveland Real Estate Board, 
The Babies' Dispensary and Hospital; director The National Asso- 
ciation of Real Estate Exchanges; member Loyal Legion, Sons of 
American Revolution, Rotary Club, and Chamber of Commerce; 
member Athletic, Union, Tavern, Euclid, Mayfield, and Country 
Clubs; the firm conducts general real estate business, and enlarged 
transactions, resulting in the erection of large buildings in the 
downtown section, including the First National Bank Bldg., the 
Hippodrome Bldg., the Higbee Bldg., the Wilbrandt Bldg. and the 
New Statler Hotel; also handle high-class rental property, and 
99-year leases. 

TAYLOR, Frank F.; oil business; born, Cleveland, July, 1867; 
educated, public schools; married, Cleveland, 1892, Carrie J. Den- 
nis; issue, two sons and one daughter; started in the lubricating 
business with the Excelsior Refining Co.; twenty-seven years ago, 
went with The Stevens Grease & Oil Co.; treas. and director of the 
company; member Chamber of Commerce, and Automobile Club. 

TAYLOR, Frank S.: attorney; born in the country, near Alli- 
ance, O., Dec. 11, 1879; son of Hugh S. and Catherine Taylor; edu- 
cated. Alliance High School, Mt. Union College, and took legal 
training at Ohio State University; married, Jamestown, N. Y., 
April 11, 1909, Mabel C. Todd; June 12, 1904, began the practice 
of law in Cleveland; member Masonic Lodge, and Knight of 
Pythias, and The Tippecanoe Club. 

TAYLOR, Henry; florist; born, England, March 16, 1852; son of 
Charles and Susan New Taylor; educated, West Fendred British Na- 
tional School; married, Wellsville, O., Feb. 8, 1877, Susan Coyle; 
issue, five children; at the age of 16, began working at plumbing; 
followed that until 1908; worked for some of the best firms in 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, O., and Lafayette, Ind., as a journeyman 
plumber; held responsible positions with good firms in all the 
above-named cities; 1908, started m the florist business. 

TAYLOR, John Warren; law and real estate; born, Mecca, O., 
Nov. 10, 1851; son of William D. and Mary A. Moran Taylor; edu- 



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eated, West Farmington Seminary, University of Michigan, LL. D., 
1898; not married; adopted daughter, Mary B. F. Taylor; studied 
law; admitted to the bar in 1876; practiced in Warren, O., until 
1884; resident of Cleveland since 1884; pres. and treas. The Taylor 
Land & Improvement Co. ; pres. and treas. The Taylor Eealty & 
Investment Co.; director Land Title Abstract Co.; director Cleve- 
lanu Keal Estate Board; member Euclid, and Colonial Clubs, Cleve- 
land; Detroit Country Club, Detroit, Mich.; Ohio Society of New 
York. 

TAYLOR, Virgil Corydon; real estate; born, Twinsburg, O., 
Aug. 4, 1838; son of Hector and Polly Carter Taylor; educated, 
public schools and Geauga Seminary; married, June 23, 1863, Mar- 
guerite Minerva Sacket; issue, four children, Harriet, now Mrs. 
F. E. Bunts; Katherine, now Mrs. E. O. Carter; Grace, now Mrs. 
J. B. Cochran, and Alexander S. Taylor; joined the Union Army in 
Company 1, 84th O. V. T.; commissioned 1st lieut. and assigned to 
the Army of the Potomac; business career, entered father's store, 
and received general education in mercantile lines; came to Cleve- 
land in 1856; entered the dry goods business, and continued in it 
till the outbreak of the war; for eight years, cashier of the 
Farmers' Bank; in 1873, went into the real estate business; has 
had an active part in the real estate transactions of "the modern 
Cleveland"; some years on the old school board of East Cleveland; 
director Chamber of Commerce; member Loyal Legion, Eudid, and 
Union Clubs, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Eecreations: Hunt- 
ing and Fishing; spend summers among the Thousand Islands. 

TAYLOR, William N.; mnfgr.; born, New Straitsville, August, 
1879; son of Thomas and Ester Taylor; educated, common schools, 
New Straitsville; finished in mechanical engineering; married, 
Cleveland, Aug. 9, 1904, Mary A. Beerer; issue, one son and one 
daughter; active in politics, but has never run for any office; or- 
ganized The Taylor Machine Co., which manufactures dairy sup- 
plies and gear cutting; has interest in several important patents; 
member Y. M. C. A., Foresters. Recreations: Motoring and 
Fishing. 

TEACHOUT, Albert R.; mnfr. and merchant; born, Royalton, O., 

June, 12, 1852; son of Abraham and Julia Ann Tousley Teachout; 
educated, public schools and Hiram College; married, Bridgeport, 
Conn., Dec. 17, 1873, Sarah Parmly; issue, Kate P., Albert R., Jr., 
and David William; associated with his father in the mercantile 
business in Cleveland in the fall of 1873; business first known as 
A. E. Teachout & Son; in 1889, incorporated as The A. Teachout 
Co., manufacturers of and dealers in doors, glass, mantles, and 
interior finish; in forty years, the business has grown to large 
proportions, and the house now stands at the head in their line; 
pres. The Teachout Sash, Door & Glass Co., Columbus, O.; pres. 
Euclid Ave. Lumber Co., Broadway Lumber Co., Edgewater Lum- 
ber Co., and The Teachout Eealty Co., Columbus, O.; trustee 



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Hiram College, Ohio Christian Missionary Society, Women's Hos- 
pital, Industrial School and Home; member Union Club. Eecrea- 
tion: Motoring. 

TEACHOUT, David William; merchant; born, Cleveland, Sept. 
20, 1886; son of Albert R. and Sarah Parmly Teachout; educated, 
Hiram College, 1908, degree of M. A.; Harvard, 1910; married, 
Hiram, O., June 20, 1911, Ruth Eugene Meigs, Nanking, China; 
one son, David William, Jr.; vice pres. and treas. The A. Teachout 
Co.; treas. and gen. mgr. The Edgewater Co.; sec 'y The Broadway 
Co.; director The Coates Co.; The Big Four Milling Co., and the 
Teachout Sash, Door & Glass Co., Columbus; Fraternity Sigma 
Alpha Epsilon; member Lakewood Tennis Club, Chamber of Com- 
merce, and University Club. 

TEAEE, Elmer E.; lumber; born, Warrensville, O., Dec. 18, 
1861; son of John and Catherine Shimrain Teare; public school 
education; married, Cleveland, Nov. 16, 1887, Mary Louise Jack- 
son; issue, two sons and one daughter; member co-partnership. 
Potter, Teare & Co.; pres. Potter-Teare Transit Co., The Cleveland 
Board of Lumber Dealers; director Cleveland Savings & Loan Co., 
Land & Title Abstract Co., Virginia Hill Coal Co., Waccaneaw 
Lumber Co.; trustee Windimere M. E. Church; member Euclid, 
Colonial, and Athletic Clubs. 

TERRY, Carleton Lewis; coal business; born near Adrian, Mich., 
Aug. 23, 1872; son of James E. and Mary T. Maynard Terry; mar- 
ried, Steubenville, O., March 9, 1895, Alma Dell King; issue, one 
son, James Edwin, second, and one daughter, Katheryn Lois; en- 
tered the service of the Iowa Central E. R., and The Wheeling & 
Lake Erie R. R., at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1891 ; came to Cleveland 
in Julj^ 1893, and entered the Freight Traffic Dept. of The Cleve- 
land, Lorain & Wheeling R. R., remaining until Jan. 1, 1901, when 
he was elected sec 'y of The Allegheny Coal Co.; director The 
Commonwealth Steamship Co.; affiliated with the Masonic Order, 
being raised in Iris Lodge; member Chamber of Commerce. 

TETER, Charles K., D. D. S.; professional anesthetist and minor 
oral surgery; born, Westfield, Ind., Sept. 25, 1875; son of Rev. J. 
H. and Sarah Howard Teter; educated, Westerville High School, 
1892-1894; Otterbein University, 1894-1897; Ohio Medical Univers- 
ity, D. D. S., 1897-1900; married, Galena, O., Feb. 28, 1900, Etta 
M. Bush; issue, two sons and one daughter; private in 4th Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, Spanish- American War; saw service in Porto 
Rico; chief anesthetist St. Luke's Hospital; inventor of the Teter 
oxid and oxygen apparatus; vice pres. of the National Association 
of Anesthetists, 1912-1913; pres. The Teter Mnfg. Co.; member 
National Medical and Dental Ass 'n, Ohio State Dental Ass'n, 
Northern Ohio Dental Ass 'n, Cleveland Dental Society, National 
Association of Anesthetists; Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity; mem- 
ber, Euclid, Athletic, and Automobile Clubs. Recreations: Golf 
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TETER, William Crooks; specialist in dentistry; born in Ten- 
nessee, May 4, 1873; son of Rev. Joseph H. and Sarah Howard 
Tetcr; educated, Houghton Seminary, N. M., 1886; Sheridan, Ind., 
High School, 1891; Otterbcin University, 1892-1898, Dental Dept., 
Ohio Medical University, 1899-1903, degrees of A. M. and Ph. B.; 
married, Coshocton, O., May 2, 1900 Elmira Noptune; issue, two 
daughters and one son; active in the development of the Teter 
nitrous oxid and oxygen apparatus and nitrous oxid and oxygen 
anesthesia; has done special work in poerrhea alveolaris; vice 
j)res. the Teter Mnfg. Co.; member the National Dental Ass'n, 
Ohio Dental Ass'n, Northern Ohio Dental Ass'n, Cleveland Dental 
Society, National Association of Anesthetists; member AthletiC; 
and Automobile Clubs. 

TEXTOR, Oscar; chemist; born, Sandusky, O., March 10, 1860; 
son of Albert and Anna Rhode Textor; educated, University of 
Michigan, degree Pharmaceutical Chemist; two years instructor 
in chemistry; married, Cleveland, June 3, 1886; Minnie A. Dunbar; 
ore son, l)orn Oct. 26, 1888; member American Chemical Society, 
American Institute Mining Engineers. 

THOMAS, Arthur Winfield; bond broker; born. East Liverpool, 
O., May 24, 1880; son of William and Mary Shannon Thomas; edu- 
cated, public and private schools; married, Cleveland, Nov. 1, 
1905. Jennie H. Lucas; issue, one son, William A.; since 1900, has 
represented large 'bond houses in Cleveland; at present mgr. Colon- 
ial Securities Co., of Cleveland; industrial corporation bonds a 
specialty; editor Photo-Play Magazine; vice pres. The Colonial 
Securities Co.; director The Dreman Cleaning Co., and The War- 
Avick Glass Co.; member Marion Lodge, No. 70, F. & A. M., Lodge 
No. 50, I. O. O. F. ; member Sons of Veterans, Independent Order 
of Heptassphs; member Screen Club, N. Y. City, City and Author's 
Clubs, Cleveland. Author of "Two Hundred Women," and a 
number of short stories; his father, William H. Thomas, for a 
number of years was mgr. of the Dresden Pottery Co., of East 
Liverpool, and pres. R. Thomas & Sons Potteries; served through 
the Civil War in 14th Ohio Vol. Infantry. 

THOMAS, John J.; physician; born, Cleveland, Nov. 18, 1868; 
son of Isaac and Mary J. Richards Thomas; educated, Cleveland 
public schools; degrees of A. B. and A. M., Adelbert College, W. 
R. U. ; M. D. degree, Medical Dept., W. R. U. ; post graduate, 
Frankfort and Strassburg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria; mar- 
ried, Washington, D. C, June 6, 1900; one son, born Aug. 7, 1907; 
member Cleveland Board of Health, 1911-1912-1913; associate in 
obstetrics, W. R. U., Medical Dept.; visiting pediatrist, Cleveland 
City Hospital; visiting obstetrian and pediatrist, St. Ann's Ma- 
ternity Hospital and Infant Asylum; consulting obstetrian. Matern- 
ity Hospital; physician for University School; visiting physician, 
Infants' Rest; sec'y medical staff of the Babies' Hospital; sec'y 
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Medical Society, Ohio Hospital Society, American Medical Ass'n, 
National Association of Medical Milk Commissioners; member 
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 

THOMSON, Archibald W.; vessel transportation; born, Phila- 
delphia, 1872; son of William and Isabella Wilson Thomson; edu- 
cated High School, Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania, but 
did not graduate; former member Troop A; nine years Pacific 
Coast agt. American Steel Barge Co., San Francisco and Paget 
Sound; in 1899, came back to Cleveland, and associated himself 
with The Wilson Transit Co.; pres. and mgr. The Wilson Transit 
Co.; director and treas. The Volunteers Transit Co., and The 
Thomas Wilson Land Co.; member Union, and Country Clubs. 

THUBSTON, Edwin L.; patent lawyer; born, Pawtucket, E. I., 
Oct. 3, 1857; son of Thomas E. and Anne W. Falconer Thurston; 
educated, Brown University, class of 1881, B. P. H.; began the 
practice of his profession in, Chicago; came to Cleveland, October, 
1887; has been a member successively of the following firms, Wat- 
son & Thurston, Wing & Thurston, Thurston & Babis, Thurston & 
Woodward, Thurston & Kwis; pres. The Maxwell Filing Systems 
Co., Chi Phi College Fraternity; member Union, Mayfield, Country, 
and Automobile Clubs. Kecreatiou: Golf. 

THWING, Charles Franklin; university pres.; born. New Sharon, 
Me., Nov. 9, 1853; son of Joseph P. and Hannah M. (Hopkins) 
Thwing; A. B., Harvard, 1876; graduated Andover Theological 
Seminary, 1879; (S. T. D., Chicago Theological Seminary, 1889; 
LL. D., Marietta, 1894, Hlinois College, 1894, Waynesburg, 1901, 
Washington and Jefferson, 1902, Kenyon, 1910) ; married Carrie F. 
Butler, Sept. 18, 1879 (died, April 24, 1898); 2d, Mary Gardiner 
Dunning, Dec. 22, 1906; ordained congregational ministry, 1879; 
pastor North Ave. Church, Cambridge, Mass., 1879-1886, Plymouth 
Church, Minneapolis, 1886-1890; pres. Western Eeserve University 
and Adelbert College, since 1890; associate editor Bibliotheca 
Sacra since 1884. Club: University. Author: American Colleges 
— Their Students and Work, 1878; The Beading of Books, 1883; 
The Family (with Mrs. Thwing), 1886; The Working Church; 
Within College Walls; The College Woman, 1894; The American 
College in American Life; The Best Life; College Administration, 
1900; The Youth's Dream of Life; God in His World; If I Were a 
College Student, 1902; The Choice of a College, 1901; A Liberal 
Education and a Liberal Faith, 1903; College Training and the 
Business Man; A History of Higher Education in America, 1906; 
Education in the Far East, 1909; History of Education in the 
United States since the Civil War, 1910; Universities of the World, 
1911. Editor-in-chief of the Biographical History of Ohio. Con- 
tributor to magazines and speaker on educational topics. 

TILLOTSON, Edwin Gray; banker; born Painesville, 0., April 
12, 1867; son of Frank A. and Sarah Gray Tillotson; educated, 



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Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, May 1, 1895, Grace 
Felton Tillotson, who died Oct. 14, 1911; issue, one child; pres. 
The Tillotson & Wolcott Co., investment bankers; The Guarantee 
Title & Trust Co.; director The Electric Properties Co., New York 
City; member Union, Country, Mayfield, and Athletic Clubs, Cleve- 
land, and City Mid-day, of New York. 

TIMENDORFER, Julius; real estate and insurance; born, Kos- 
din, Silesia, Germany, Sept. 7, 1856; son of M. and Henrietta 
Fischer Timendorfer; educated in the public and manual training 
schools of native city, and Berlin; married, Oct. 4, 1886, Anna 
Eosenthal, of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany; issue, two 
daughters, Florence & Irma; when 15, entered a department store, 
as apprentice; worked three years without pay to learn the busi- 
ness; then worked as clerk; employed in a silk house in Koenigs- 
burg, for 1 year; went into coal and lumber business with his 
father in Berlin; city salesman; landed in New York in 1877; 
worked in a coal yard, after ten days started for Cleveland; ar- 
rived with ten cents in his pocket; worked three months for Lloyd 
Fisher, a farmer; four months in the Cleveland Eolling Mill; 
porter for Strauss, Miller & Orth; promoted, after ten days to 
salesman; in 1887, went to Onaga, Kas., because of ill-health; re- 
mained one and one-half years; returned to Cleveland, and opened 
a grocery store; soon sold out, and went into the real estate busi- 
ness; does a large brokerage business; first broker on Erie St. and 
has made 50 per cent, of the sales on that St.; sec 'y and mgr. 
Euclid Bldg Co.; mgr. Boardman Eealty Co.; sec 'y and mgr. Wilson 
Improvement Co.; pres., treas. and mgr. of the Trio Improvement 
Co.; director Acme Improvement Co.; former pres. the Cleveland 
Real Estate Board; member Chamber of Commerce, Credit Men's 
Ass'n, Cleveland Gesangverein, Masons, Knights of Pythias, and 
Royal Arcaniim; member Euclid Ave. Temple, and one of the 
building committee. 

TINNERMAN, George A.; banker; born, Hessen, Germany, 
April 10, 1845; emigrated with his parents to this country, in 
1847, locating in Brooklyn, O., later in Lindale; three years later, 
removed to Cleveland, where he has resided ever since; educated, 
common schools, learned the tinner's trade, and engaged in the 
hardware and stove business on Lorain St.; pres. The Lorain St. 
Savings Bank; owner The Tinnerman Range Work; manufacturing 
Ohio ranges. 

TIPPY, Worth M.; clergyman; born, Larwill, Ind.; Nov. 8, 
1867; son of Oren and Mary Elizabeth Carder Tippy; educated, 
DePauw University, Ph. B., DePauw University, Hon. D. D., Bald- 
win University, Hon. D. D., Cornell University, two years graduate 
Avork as Sage scholar, 1901-1903; married, Vevay, Ind., May 16, 
1895, Zella Birda Ward; issue, Marian Ward, born Nov. 18, 1896; 
Helen Ward, born Dec. 12, 1898; member of Mayor's Committee 
on nomination for Charter Commission, 1913; pastorates, Drydeu, 



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N. Y., 1892; LaFayette, Ind., 1893; Oxford, Ind., 1894; Terre 
Haute, Ind., 1895; Broadway Church, Indianapolis, Ind., 1900; 
Epworth Memorial, Cleveland, 1905 to present date; university 
preacher, Indiana University, 1901-1904; Cornell University, 1909- 
1911-1913; lecturer on "The Social Functions of the Church," 
Post Graduate Ass'n, Bloomington, 111., and before the pastor's 
organizations and conferences in South Dakota and Indiana; 
member executive Committee Methodist Federation for Social Ser- 
vice; pres., 1912-1913, Federated Churches of Cleveland; director 
Humane Society, City Club; member St. Luke's Hospital Ass'n; 
member Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Psi Phi Chapter; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Council of Sociology, and Indianapolis Lit- 
erary Club; fond of flowers and all out-door sports. Author of 
"The Socialized Church," 1909; prominent on committees of fin- 
ance and conference work of Methodist denomination; member 
committee on Social Service, Cornell University. 

TODD, George C; railroad division supt.; born, Flushing, O., 
June 7, 1867; started as telegraph operator with the C. L. & W. 
Ry., in August, 1883; train dispatcher, October, 1887, to September, 
1889; train dispatcher, Northern Pacific Ry., September, 1889, to 
Jan. 1, 1890; from that date to April, 1902, train dispatcher N. Y. 
S. & St. L. Ry.; chief train dispatcher, 1902 to 1907; chief dis- 
patcher to April, 1908; train master to June, 1912; supt. telegraph 
to date; now division superintendent same road. 

TOLLE, Richard Perry; merchant; born, Maysville, Ky., Oct. 
20, 1883; son of William A. and Sarah Frances Fowler Tolle; edu- 
cated, public schools, Maysville; married, Indianapolis, Ind., May 
19, 1904, Annabel Day; issue, three children; manager the S. S. 
Kresge Co., Cleveland store; 32nd degree Mason, A. A. O. N. M. 
Shrine; member Country Club. Recreations: Baseball and Auto- 
mobiling. 

TOMLINSON, George F.; auditor; born, Sandusky, O., Dec. 1, 
1867; son of Charles and Hannah Musson Tomlinson; educated, 
public schools, Medina High School, 1885; married, Cleveland, 
June 14, 1894, Anna Van Driel; issue, three children; entered service 
of C. C. C. & S. L. R. R., May 24, 1886; transferred to L. S. & M. 
S. R. R., Nov. 16, 1891; promoted to auditor of disbursements, Aug. 
1, 1909. Recreations: Automobiling and Baseball. 

TOWER, George Edward; manager; born, Ashtabula, O., July, 
18, 1877; son of Herbert Baseom and Alice Jane Hart Tower; edu- 
cated, public schools, Ashtabula, O., and Chattanooga, Teiin.; grad- 
uated from High School in latter city; received degree B. S., Chat- 
tanooga Normal University, and LL. B., Chattanooga Law School; 
business career, shop, drafting, engineering and sales experience 
in engineering and manufacturing companies, until he established 
the Tower Machinery Co., in 1908, which carries on a brokerage 
business in heavy contractors' equipment; proprietor and mgr. The 
Tower Machinery Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, The Cleve- 



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land Engineering Society; member Epworth Memorial Methodist 
Church, Masonic Bodies, Iris Lodge, Webb Chapter, Cleveland 
Council, Oriental Commandery, Eliadah Lodge of Perfection, Ba- 
hurim Council, Ariel Chapter, Lake Erie Consistory, Al Koran 
Temple. 

TREADWAY, Francis Wilcox; lawyer; born. New Haven, Conn,, 
Jan. 7, 1869; son of Augustine Eussell and Mary L. Mansfield 
Treadway; educated, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, B. S., 1890; 
Yale University, LL. B., 1892; married, Cleveland, Jan. 5, 1907, 
Esther L. Frisbie; Frances Sessions and Augustine Eussell Tread- 
way, children; law firm, Treadway and Marlatt, since 1893; treas. 
Cleveland Bar Ass'n, 1907 to 1912; United States Commissioner, 
1902-1903; member Ohio House of Eepresentatives, 1904-1905; nom- 
inated vice mayor of Cleveland, 1907; pres. Tippecanoe Club, 1906- 
1907; director Chamber of Commerce, 1911-1913; lieut. gov. of Ohio, 
1909-1910; director Guardian Savings & Trust Co., Peck, Stow & 
Wilcox Co., Eauch & Lang Carriage Co.; director and sec'y, mem- 
ber American Academy of Political and Social Science; trustee 
Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, Pilgrim Congre- 
gational Church; trustee and sec'y Jones Home for Friendless 
Children, Fraternity Phi Delta Phi; fond of tennis, golf and water 
sports; member Union, Clifton, Tippecanoe Clubs, Cleveland, and 
Columbus Club, Columbus, O.; author, with W. H. Marlatt, of 
"Ohio Law of Mechanics Liens," W. H. Anderson & Co., 1901; 
second edition, 1904. 

TREADWAY, Lymau H.; pres. The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co.; 
born, New Haven, Conn., March 27, 1862; sou of the late A. E. 
Treadway, who moved to Cleveland in 1879, and organized The 
Wilcox-Treadway Co., manufacturers of general hardware; after- 
wards incorporated with The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co.; entered his 
father's business in 1881, and was successively employed as mgr. 
(Cleveland Branch, vice pres. and pres.; director of Peck, Stow & 
Wilcox Co., Superior Savings & Trust Co., Peerless Motor Car Co.; 
pres. Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 1907-1908; pres. Masonic 
Temple Ass'n, 1907; Pres. Euclid Club, 1906-1907; trustee of 
Western Eeserve University, St. Luke's Hospital, Hiram House, 
Cleveland Day Nursery and Free Kindergarten; 33rd degree 
Mason; life member Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Eite; member 
New England Society, Tippecanoe Eepublican Club, Colonial, 
Euclid, Country, and Eoadside Clubs, Cleveland, and Union League 
Club, of New York. 

TRESCOTT, Samuel Butler; salesman; born. Alliance, O., Jan. 
26, 1842; son of Clark and Ann Butler Trescott; educated. Alli- 
ance High School, class 1859; married, Sept. 15, 1864, Elizabeth J. 
Crawford; issue, two sons, four daughters; Republican; served 
as school director; fifty years traveling salesman and sales man- 
ager, starting at the beginning of the profession; connected with 
Bancroft & Trescott; Trescott-Shook Co.; General Mdse. Co., and 
pres. Trescott Packing Co.; member I, O. O. F., and K. of P. 



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TRUNECEK, Frank J.; sec'y and treas. The Electra Pure 
Water Co.; boru, Bohemia, Oct. 5, 1869; son of John and Theresa 
Pinkas Trunecek; educated, High School in Prague; married, 
Cleveland, Oct, 5, 1891, Rose Cenec; issue, three children; sec'y 
and treas. The Electra Pure Water Co.; American representative 
Kratochvil and growers and importers Bohemian hops, Prague 
Saaz, pres. The Papa Cola Co.; member Svrrnost, No. 3, C. S. P. S., 
Knights Pythias, No. 317, Bohemian Turners Sokol Cech; member 
Cleveland Athletic, and Rotary Clubs. 

TUCKERMAN, Jacob Edward; surgeon; born, Austinburg, O., 
Aug. 23, 1876; son of Louis Bryant and Mary Ellen Hopkins 
Tuckerman; educated, South New Lyme Institute, South New 
Lyme, O., 1888-1890; Cleveland Central High School, 1893; Adel- 
bert College, Western Reserve University, A. B.; Cleveland College 
Physicians and Surgeons, M. D. ; commissioner first Charter Com- 
mission of City of Cleveland, 1913; vice pres. American Academy 
of Medicine, 1912-1913; sec'y and treas. Academy of Medicine, 
Cleveland, 1911-1912-1913; member Ohio State Medical Ass'n, and 
American Medical Ass'n; taught physics and chemistry, Ogden 
High School, Ogden, Utah, 1897-1899; instructor embryology and 
comparative anatomy, Cleveland College Physicians, 1899-1902; 
lecturer hygiene and sanitary science, 1909-1910; interne St. Alexis 
Hospital, 1902-1903; physician and surgeon since 1902; director 
Glenville Hospital; member Chamber of Commerce, and City Club. 
Favorite recreation: Figure Ice Skating. Medical contributions: 
"Flat Foot," A Mechanical Problem Solved by an Ideal Plate, 
Simply Constructed and Allowing Natural Motion to the Foot. 
"The Economic Effect of Contract Medical Practice on the Medi- 
cal Profession," "Management, Maintenance and Efficiency of 
The School for Cripples in Cleveland," 1913, Exchange Editor of 
Current Medical Literature. 

TURNER, J. K.; editor; born, Chicago, 1863; son of J. K. and 
Ellen Brady Turner; educated, common schools, three years; mar- 
ried, Milwaukee, Wis., 1896, May Grace Schiffman; issue, three 
children; pres. The Manufacturers' Information Bureau Co.; editor 
The Mediator Magazine; owner The Mediator Printery; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Geauga County Farm Improvement Ass'n, 
Cleveland Humane Society; member the following: The Square 
Deal Club, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 
The American Civic Association, American Geographical Ass'n, 
National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, Na- 
tional Educational Ass'n; member Colonial, Tippecanoe, and Auto- 
mobile Clubs. 

TYLER, John Walter; lawyer; born. South Newburg, O., May 
4, 1841; son of Cutler and Sarah Fisher Tyler; educated, common 
and High schools; A. B., Oberlin College, 1867, and A. M., 1870; 
graduated from the Union Law School, Cleveland; admitted to 
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1875, Mary E. Higgins; issue, two sons, Walter J. and Paul W. 
Tyler, three daughters, Mrs W. K. Hayes, Mrs. Charles J. Johnson, 
and Marie S. Tyler; member and clerk of Board of County School 
Examiners, Lake County, 1862-1868; law partnership in Painesville 
with Franklin Paine, 1862-1867, and in Cleveland for ten years 
with Amos Denison. 

UHLRICH, Emile Marie; architect; born, Epinal, France, March 
28, 1873; son of Louis F. and Francoise Von der Scheer Uhlrich; 
educated, Ecole, Fenelon, Vanjours, France; Lycee, St. Nicholas, 
Paris, France; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; married, Le 
Havre, France, October, 1908, Marguerite Augustine Juliette 
Gembre; pupil of Berger and Maistranse, Paris, France, 1890; 
designer for Des Jardines & Hay ward, Cincinnati, 1894; estab- 
lished alone since 1904; representative works, St. Elizabeth's 
Church, Cincinnati, O.; St. Eocop, St. Francis, St. Johns, St. La- 
dislas churches; St. Michaels, Our Lady of Lourdes schools; J. L. 
Hudson Co. 's Building, Cleveland, Akron Music Hall, St. Mary's 
Church, Marietta, O., St. Peter's Church, Steubenville, O.; Our 
Laciy of Consolation Church, Carey, O.; St. Peter's and Paul's 
School, Wellston, O.; St. Mary of the Angels Church, Olean, N. Y. 

ULCHEK, Frank J.; manufacturer; born, Bohemia, Jan. 4, 1871; 
son of John Ulchek; educated, public schools, Bohemia, graduat- 
ing at the age of 12; two years at Manual Training School; learned 
tool-smithing at Storian Mills, 14 to 16; married, Cleveland, July 
3, Mary Birhanzl, issue, two sons, and one daughter; Feb. 4, 1895, 
started as blacksmith with one helper; 1900, moved to a larger 
shop, 8023 Central Ave., employing six men; was burned out in 
1909; re-established business in new and larger quarters, 19709 
Quiney Ave.; incorp^arated business in 1913; employs sixty-five 
men, and is contemplating enlarging plant; pres. and gen. mgr. 
The Ulchek Tool Co.; member St. Anthony Literary Society, L K. 
J., Gilmour Council, K. of C. 

UIiLMAN, Monroe A.; business; born, Franklin, Pa., April 5, 
1866; son of Morris and Lena Abraham Ullman; educated, 1872 to 
1887, Mayflower School and Spencerian Business College; married, 
Albany, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1892, Florence Fuld; issue, two sons, How- 
ard, born April 5, 1894, and Eufus, born May 30, 1895; vice pres. 
The IIllman-Emstein Co.; director German-American Savings 
Bank Co.; after he left school, he started with Ullman-Emstein 
Co., wholesale liquors; has been with them ever since; was made 
vice pres. when the firm was incorporated; member Hebrew Eelief 
Ass'n; member Knights of Pythias, Washington Lodge; Cleveland 
Lodge, No. 16, I. O. B. B.; Hebrew Free Loan Ass'n; member Wil- 
son Ave. Temple, Excelsior, and Athletic Clubs, Chamber of Com- 
merce, Forest City Consistory of U. C. T., and Cleveland Com- 
mercial Traveler's Ass'n. 

UIiMER, John Christian; manfr.; born, Wurttenberg, Germany, 
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cated in Germany and the Cuyahoga Falls, O., High School; started 
in the machinist trade, jobbing and marine engine building, but 
mostly tool-making and foreman until 1893; started a business for 
the repairing of engineering, surveying and scientific instruments; 
in 1895, began the manufacture of same, incorporated 1906, as 
the J. C. Ulmer Co.; since 1896, the "Ulmer" instruments have 
been extensively used in the laying out of the Cleveland park 
system, water tunnels, sewers, track elevations, and many public 
and private enterprises in the city, as well as in many other 
cities, colleges and private corporations; railroads, as well as the 
U. S. Government, are owners of ' ' Ulmer ' ' transits and levels, 
which are built to stand upon their merits and are giving universal 
satisfaction wherever used; the company also manufacturers the 
' * Lucaschain Tapes, ' ' which are unsurpassed for accuracy and 
quality, over 75,000 feet being in use by the government in the 
Philippine Islands, and many times more than that in North and 
South America; pros, and treas. The J. C. Ulmer Co.; manfr. 
scientific instruments; member Cleveland Engineering Society, and 
of all the different Masonic bodies, and the Knights of Pythias, 
and the Y. M. C. A. Eecreatious: Hunting, Fishing, Boating and 
Photography; is one of the very few instrument makers in the 
U. S., never having been connected with any instrument estab- 
lishment; the "Ulmer" instruments were designed by him and 
have many original features which characterize them; motto from 
the beginning has alwavs been * ' What is Worth Doing is Worth 
Doing Well." 

UTZINGER, Leonard; born, Switzerland, Dee. 10, 1848; son of 
Leonard and Anna Weise Utzinger; educated in Switzerland; mar- 
ried. New York, Sept. 20, 1882, Anna Weise; issue, two children, 
Leonard and Pauline; two years in Swiss Guards; in 1864, started 
as florist apprentice, for Gabriel Drossel, in Switzerland; 1867, 
went to Basl, as florist for the Grand Duke of Baden; nine mouths 
as head gardener; then to the employ of the King of Wurtenberg, 
Royal Gardens; then to Reublingen, as head gardener for Mr. 
Adolph Deitterlein; then came to New York in charge of private 
place for Henry Miarz; came to Cleveland, and was employed by 
Mr. Gordon for five years; then started business for himself in 
present location; designer i.nd decorator; member Florist Club, 
Protected Home Circle, and Reformed Church. 

VAIL, George Skinner; branch mgr. Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. 
Co.; born, Lima, O., Jan. 26, 1884; son of J. B. and Rose Skinner; 
graduated, Case School of Applied Science, 1907, degree of B. S.; 
married, Lima, O., April 27, 1909, Cretora I. Hay; one daughter, 
Jane; salesman Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co., 1907-1911; branch 
mgr., 1911 to date; associate member American Institute Electrical 
Engineers; member American Electric Ry. Ass'n, Zeta Psi, Cleve- 
land Athletic Club, Chamber of Commerce. 

VALENTINE, Richard F.; sales mgr.; born, Germany, Nov. 25, 
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Cleveland grammar schools and Commercial College; married, 
Cleveland, Nov. 17, 1909, Martha Blanchard; member the Cleve- 
land Grays; successful career on the concert platform and operatic 
stage between the age of 17 and 22; started as department mgr. 
at Mechanical Eubber Co., in 1907; had charge of their various 
departments until spring of 1911; promoted to asst. gen. sales 
mgr., January, 1912; advanced to gen. sales mgr., advancement 
due to tact and business energy, and a desire to further the in- 
terests of the business; pres. Board of Trustees, Trinity Congre- 
gational Church; member Athletic, Euclid, and Eotary Clubs; 
director The Colonial Club; member Chamber of Commerce. Eecre- 
ations: Music, Golf, Baseball and Handball. 

VAN DE BOB, Joseph Sherman; real estate; born, Jan. 20, 1859, 
Cooperstown, N. Y.; son of John Leeland Van De Boe; common 
school education; married in December, 1881, Miss Mary A. Wood, 
of Lebanon; issue, one son, Hugh Eobert, born Oct. 14, 1885; Mrs. 
Van De Boe died in December, 1909, while visiting her son, in Hong 
Kong, China; business career, began to work when 12 years of 
age; worked on a farm; mgr. Drug Co. in Andover, N. Y.; realizing 
the need of further education, worked in country store in Ulysses, 
Pa., and attended Academy there; then went to Eastman Business 
College, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; worked in store in country, and 
later taught school; studied more, and graduated from Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; lived in Sanford, Fla., for four 
years; bookkeeper and gen. mgr. of dry goods and grocery store; 
went into business for himself, continuing until 1887, when store 
was destroyed by fire; went to Chicago, and did a brokerage busi- 
ness; then with Boston real estate firm; began on small salary, but 
in ten months made gen. mgr., with salary of $100 per week and 
expenses; in 1893, located in Buffalo, N. Y.; in 1895, formed part- 
nership with W. M. Hagar; came to Cleveland, and started present 
business; pres. of the company; has laid out thirteen subdivisions 
in Cleveland; has a branch office in Columbus, O. ; member Cham- 
ber of Commerce and Credit Men's Ass'n, Athletic and Automo- 
bile Clubs; Eepublican; Episcopalian; prominent in Masonry. 

VAN EPPS, John Sminck; coal agt.; born, Cleveland, Aug. 13, 
1885; son of John Payson and Mary E. Sminck Van Epps; edu- 
cated, Cleveland High School; married, Cleveland, April 20, 1881, 
Fanny Noakes; issue, three children, Sally, Leslie J., and Mrs. J. 
C. Sanderson; Western sales agt. for the distribution of Anthra- 
cite, West of Buffalo, produced by the Delaware & Hudson Co., 
from 1879 to 1902; from 1902 to date, handling same product as 
Western sales agt. for Millspaugh & Green Co., LTtica and Syra- 
cuse; sales agt. for The Millspaugh-Green-McMorrich Co., Detroit, 
Mich.; see'y and director Trerorton Coaling Co. of Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania; director and chairman of the executive committee. The 
Ohio Lemon Co., Ohio; trustee Y. M. C. A.; member Masonic order, 
Halcyon, Eotary, Kokoal; member Union Club, Chamber of Com- 
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VAN EPPS, Leslie; wholesale coal dealer; born, Cleveland, May 
9, 1883; son of John L. and Fannie Noakes Van Epps; educated, 
Central High School and Case School of Applied Science; married, 
New York City, Sept. 29, 1908, Mabel E. Anderson; two children; 
supt. "Catherine Colliery," of the Trevorton Co., of Trevorton, 
Pa.: sec'y and treas. The Van Epps Coal Co.; member Phi Kappa 
Psi Fraternity. 

VAN TRESS, Herman B.; dentist; born, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1865; son 
of Cyru3 H. and Jane Donaldson Van Tress; educated, public 
schools, Wilmington, O.; married, Sandusky, O., Sept. 6, 1894, Eva 
D. Gordon; issue, two daughters, Bessie and Gladys; received pro- 
fessional training at The Ohio College of Dental Surgery, Depart- 
ment of Dentistry, University of Cincinnati; graduating with de- 
gree of D. D. S., March 11, 1891; member Ohio Dental Society, 
Northern Ohio Dental Society, and Cleveland Dental Society; came 
to Cleveland in the spring of 1897; went to Los Angeles, Cal., im- 
mediately after his marriage, and remained there about two years 
and a half; member Cleveland Camera Club. Recreations: Ama- 
teur Photography, Billiards and Books. 

VAN VALKENBERG, Dr. Horace; dentist; born, Russell, 0., Jan. 
29, 1884; son of A. E. and Mary Kilby Van Valkenburg; educated, 
Chagrin Falls High School; graduate, D. D. S., Western Reserve 
University; married, Cleveland, Aug. 12, 1908, Lucy M. Hudson. 

VARGA, Hugo Eugene; lawyer; born, Kassa, Hungary, June 16, 
1885; son of Joseph and Sophie Varga; educated, Gymnasium in 
Kassa, Hungary; graduated, in 1903, with highest honors. Five 
Semester, in the Royal Hungarian University, of Budapest; second 
highest honors, University of Hlinois, 1907; Northwestern Uni- 
versity Law School, Chicago, 1908-1909, LL. B., 1909; partici- 
pated in National Progressive Party Campaign in 1912, speak- 
ing in Northern Ohio; admitted to Illinois bar in 1910, and Ohio 
bar, 1911; attorney for Austro-Hungarian Consulate, 1910-1913; in 
active practice in Cleveland since December, 1911; 1908-1909 
chief clerk of Rubens, Fisher, Mosser & Rigby, counselors, Chi- 
cago; abroad, asst. sec'y Law Club, Law College, Hungary; mem- 
ber board of directors. Royal University Society, Budapest; 1904- 
1905, mer.^ber Protective League, Chicago, and Civic League, Cleve- 
land; American Society for International Law; American Institute 
of Criminal Law and Criminology; American Sociological Society, 
American Association for Labor Legislation, National Child Labor 
Committee, National Confer 3nce of Charities and Corrections; 
pres. Alumni Associations of Northern Ohio University; member 
Goethe-Schiller Verein, Woodmen of the World, Hungarian Amer- 
ican Federation, Corda Frabes, Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs, 
iJniversity of Illinois Alumni Ass'n, Northwestern University 
Alumni Association, Cleveland; member City Club, Chamber of 
Commerce and Progressive Club; in 1907, editor Chicago Hungarian 
Weekly News; has written as regular contributor to various local 
and university papers abroad; speaks several languages. 

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VICKERY, Hon. Willis; lawyer; born, Bellevue, O., Nov. 26, 
1857; son of William and Sarah Perkins Vickery; no schooling 
until the age of 19, excepting three months in the winter; then 
entered the Clyde, 0., High School, graduating in 1880, va.ledic- 
torian of class; studied law in the oifice of Everett & Fowler, at 
Fremont, O.; continued law studies combined with teaching in the 
schools of Clyde and Castalia, O., in 1882, entered the law dept. of 
Boston University; graduated in 1884; admitted to the Ohio bar 
in 1885; married three times; three children by first wife, who was 
Anna L. Snyder; second marriage to Eleanor R. Grant, of Boston, 
Mass., and third marriage to Mrs. Rosalie Griggs Mayberry, of 
Cleveland; in 1885, opened law office in Bellevue, firm Vickery 
Bros.; came to Cleveland in 1896; practiced alone, and was asso- 
ciated with Hon. Chas. S. Bentley, firm of Bentley & Vickery, 
before elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; member of 
firm of Vickery, Fleharty & Corlett; assumed duties of Judge in 
January, 1909; in 1897, one of the organizers of the Baldwin Uni- 
versity Law School; was sec'y and managing officer; same posi- 
tion when school consolidated with the Cleveland Law School; 
prominent in the lake front litigation settlement and by decision 
the city is likely to recover land on the lake front worth thirty 
milli 1 dollars; republican; not a partisan, and believe in the 
elimination of politics from the courts; known over the United 
States as a student of Shakespeare; former pres. the New York 
Shakespeare Society; member the Bibliophile Society, of Boston, 
Mass.; Carteret Club, Newark, N. J.; author of note, and enthusi- 
astic collector of rare books; the owner of : fine library, contain- 
ing many rare volumes; member Chamber of Commerce; pres. of 
the Rowfant Club, and member the Tippecanoe Club; Mason and 
Knights of Pythias. 



VOECE, Myron Bond; pres. Vorce Engineering Co.; born, Cleve- 
land, Aug. 14, 1871 ; son of Charles M. and Evelyn Cornelia Marshall 
Vorce; public school education; married, Detroit, Mich., 1903, Miss 
Ethel Ridgley Stearns; clerk in store; then went with a surveying 
party; became interested in engineering; studied along that line while 
in Tennessee; accepted position with E. W. Bowdich, of Boston, 
under their employ was sent to Cleveland to develop Euclid 
Heights, Clifton Park and other work of that kind; accepted posi- 
tion as asst. engineer for Park Board; in that position until 1897; 
then went to work in private practice, but in 1898, entered the 
city engineering dept., as asst. engineer in charge of the intercept- 
ing sewer; promoted to pavement engineer; made building inspec- 
tor in 1905; served until March, 1907; formed Vorce Engineering 
Co.; pres. and gen. mgr. ; member Civil Engineers Club, and Auto 
Club; member Lakewood Yacht Club; director and former com- 
modore; member council of the Yacht Racing Union. Recreation: 
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WADE, Benjamin Franklin; treas. The Taylor & Boggis Foundry 
Co.; born, Cleveland, Nov. 26, 1857; son of James and Margaret 
Uhl Wade; father came to Cleveland in 1845, and practiced law 
until his death in 1907; graduated, Brooks Military Academy, 
1877; S. S. B., University of Michigan, 1879; married, Cleveland, 
1887, Mary Boggis; issue, one daughter, Helen Wade, born April 
26, 1889, died, Feb. 26, 1890; asst. sec 'y Woodland Ave. Railway 
Co., about four years from 1879; treas. Cleveland Window Glass 
Co., for four years; since that time with the Taylor & Boggis 
Foundry Co.; greater part of the time as treas.; director The Chand- 
ler & Price Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Auto- 
mobile Club. 

WADE, Jeptha Homer; financier; born, Cleveland, Oct. 15, 1857; 
son of Randall P. and Anna R. McGaw Wade; educated, Cleveland 
private schools; A. M., Western Reserve University; married, Oct. 
15, 1878, Miss Ellen Garrettson; issue, three children; Mr. Wade 
now makes his home in New York; chairman Board of Directors, 
Citizens Savings & Trust Co.; vice pres. The Cleveland Cliffs Iron 
Co.; interested in many banking, manufacturing and mining enter- 
prises; a large holder of Cleveland real estate; a trustee of most 
of the leading educational and charitable institutions of the city, 
and a most generous supporter of these institutions. 

WAGAR, Mars E.; pres. The Western Reserve Insurance Co.; 
born, Lakewood, O., June 24, 1858; educated, Cleveland High 
School; graduated, Harvard College, 1881, degree A. B., and degree 
A. M., 1901; Paris, Leipsic and Zurich; teacher Central High 
School, in 1882; for six years member the Public Library Board; 
has traveled extensively; pres. the Maxs Wagar Realty Co.; sec'y 
the Sheriff St. Market & Storage Co.; member Rowfant, Roadside, 
and Clifton Clubs; trustee new Church of Lakewood; director the 
Century Club; pres. Harvard Club; politically Independent Demo- 
crat. 

WAGNER, Jacob; born, Switzerland, 1840; son of John R. and 
Mary Weltz Wagner; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, 
Cleveland, Aug. 4, 1870, Elizabeth Fontins; issue, two sons, Frank 
A. and Charles J.; served three years in Rebellion; enlisted Co. B, 
128th O. V. I., January, 1862; discharged, March, 1865; guarded 
rebel officers at Johnson's Island and transported them for ex- 
change to Vicksburg, Miss.; two different times under a flag of 
truce inside the rebel lines 300 miles; also to Ohio Penitentiary at 
0»-lumbus, O. ; pres. The Wagner Manufacturing Co., the firm was 
started in 1866, and the present company incorporated in 1890; 
the company manufactures tents, awnings and flags; a specialty of 
the house is the Wagner chain and tube roller owning; do a big 
business in furnishing outfits for encampments; during the Spanish 
War they had more tents in stock than any concern in the country 
and supplied the state with full equipment for the Ohio State 
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weddings and large social functions; handle the best goods and own 
and control all of their own patents; member Swiss Beneficial So- 
ciety, Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Post; came 
to Cleveland in 1853, having lived in Buffalo for three years. 
Eecreations: Fishing and Motor Boating. 

WAIN, Lewis H.; real estate; born, Eavenna, O., Oct. 15, 1863; 
son of Hugh and Hannah .Jennings Wain; educated, Cleveland pub- 
lic schools; married, Cleveland, May 5, 1897, Mary Jenness Mer- 
win; issue, three children; active in the reorganization of the 
Cleveland Real Estate Board in 1895; pres. of the Board in 1896, 
and a trustee for five years; operator and broker in real estate and 
mortgages; pres. The L. H. Wain Co.; director Land Title Abstract 
Co.; pres. Cleveland Realization Co.; member Sons of American 
Revolution; has demonstrated the substantial and profitable char- 
acter of Cleveland and adjacent real estate as an investment by 
his own well-selected holdings. Recreations: Motoring and 
Farming. 

WAITE, Frederick Clasrton; college prof.; born, Hudson, O., 
May 24, 1870; son of Nelson and Cynthia (Post) Waite; graduate 
W^estern Reserve Academy, Hudson, 1888; B. Litt., Western Reserve 
University, Cleveland, 1892, A. M., 1894; A. M., Harvard, 1896, 
Ph. D., 1898; unmarried; asst. in biology. Western Reserve, 1892- 
1895; Morgan fellow, 1896-1897; demonstrator zoology, 1907-1908; 
Harvard, instructor biology, high schools, New York, 1898-1900; 
New York University, 1899-1900; asst. in anatomy. Rush Medical 
College, Chicago, 1900-1901; asst. prof, histology and embryology, 
1901-1904; asso. prof., 1904-1906, prof., 1906-; sec'y of faculty, 
1907- ; Western Reserve University; fellow A. A. A. S.; member 
Association American Anatomists, American Society Naturalists, 
American Society Zoologists, American Microscopic Society, Boston 
Society Natural History, Ohio Academy Sciences, Cleveland Acad- 
emy Medicine; asso. member A. M. A.; vice pres. Association Amer- 
ican Medical Colleges, 1905-1906; member Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha 
Omega Alpha. Club: University. 

WALL, William E.; pres. Fred G. Clark Co.; born, Chatham, 
Ont., Can., Aug. 23, 1868; educated, common schools and Chatham 
High School and Collegiate Institute; came to Cleveland in 1890; 
engaged in the oil business, for the past 24 years identified with 
the Fred G. Clark Co.; elected pres. of the National Petroleum 
Ass'n, 1903; pres. the Tiona Refining Co., Indianapolis, Ind., treas. 
the Conewango Refining Co., Warren, Pa.; director the Monitor 
Oil Co.; Great Western Oil Co., and Manufacturers Oil Co.; elected 
sec'y of the Cleveland Petroleum Ass'n, 1904; member Euclid, Her- 
mit, and Clifton Clubs; Chamber of Commerce; member the Cone- 
wango Club, Warren, Pa., and the Venango Club, Oil City, Pa. 

WALKER, Frank Eay; architect; born, Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 
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cated, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; post graduate work 
in design; pursued study of architecture in France and Italy, 1903- 
1904; Walker & Weeks, architects; member Cleveland Engineering 
Society, Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Chapter, American In- 
stitute, M. I. T., Alumni Ass'n, Northern Ohio; member Hermit, 
Athletic, M. I. T. Clubs, New York City; East End Tennis Club, 
Cleveland Y. M. C. A. 

WAIiKEY, Charles B.; contractor; born, Cleveland, Sept. 29, 
1880; son of William W. and Lida A. Stephens Walkey; educated, 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Aug. 24, 1909, Mary 
A. Forquer; issue, two children, one daughter and one son; gen- 
eral building contractor; with L. S. & M. S. K. E. Co., for five 
years; member M. E. Church, Masonic Order, Knight Templars, 
K. of P. 

WALKEY, Harry Edgar; contractor; born, Cleveland, Aug. 19, 
1882; son of Wm. W. and Lida Stephens Walkey; educated, Fair- 
mont school; married, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 7, 1905, Louise Car- 
gill; issue, two children; general contractor; member Maccabees. 
Recreations: Hunting and Motorcycling. 

WALTER, Robert E.; florist; born, Cleveland, May 6, 1882; son 
of J. H. R. and A. Richter Walter; educated, Cleveland public 
schools; has been in florist business with his father for fifteen 
years; member Reformed Church. Recreation: Motor Boating. 

WALTON, John Whittlesey; merchant and mfgr.; born Salis- 
bury, Litchfield County, Conn., Jan. 15, 1845; son of Lucius Clark 
and Mary Vesta (Whittlesey) Walton; removed in early life to 
Tallmadge, Summit County, O.; educated, public school and Tall- 
madge Academy, graduated, 1864, Eastman's Business College, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; married, Cleveland, Oct. 6, 1869, L. A. 
Lyman; issue, one son and two daughters, Edwin A. Walton (De- 
troit, Mich.), Ethelwyne, now Mrs. William O. Osborn, Cleveland, 
Florence L., now Mrs. Frank Gill Dorr, Buffalo, N. Y.; married 
Gertrude Louise Hutchinson, Madison, Ind.; issue, three daughters, 
Gertrude Letitia, Margaret, Gladys; clerked first in retail and 
hardware store; bookkeeper packing house, 1869-1870; with brother- 
in-law founded vessel supply house of Upson & Walton, 1871; in- 
corporated 22 years later and now has world-wide relations; treas. 
Upson-Walton Co., and Cleveland Block Co., manufactures tackle 
blocks; member Ohio Society of Mayflower Descendants; Western 
Reserve Society Sons of American Revolution, American Academy 
of Political and Social Science; Western Reserve Historical So- 
ciety, Rowfant and Philosophical Clubs; trustee Workingmen's 
Collateral Loan Ass'n; trustee and treas. Cleveland Associated 
Charities; has made a special study of sociology; has given a large 
collection of books on that subject to Cleveland Public Library; 
private library particularly strong in history and French litera- 
ture, having made a special study of French language; family his- 



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tory includes descent from three Revolutionary officers and from 
Gov. William Bradford of the Pilgrims. 

WALWOETH, Frank Howard; retired; born, East Cleveland, 
July 15, 1857; son of John and Mary V. Eace Walworth; educated 
in Cleveland schools; married. East Cleveland, April 17, 1889, 
Kate Cole Cline; issue, three children, Mrs. Stewart B. Browne, 
Jeanette, John Dunlap; teller "Wade Park Bank and then teller 
Cleveland Trust Co.; retired from active business in 1908; treas. 
Village of East Cleveland from 1898 to 1904; pres. Sinking Fund 
Commission, East Cleveland; treas. and trustee the A. M. McGregor 
Home; member Chamber of Commerce, and Cleveland Real Estate 
Board. 

WAED, Joseph A.; banker; born, Cleveland, June 19, 1873; son 
of Michael and Jane McQuillan Ward; parochial school and busi- 
ness college education; unmarried; 24 years with the Cleveland 
National Bank, now asst. cashier. 

WARNER, Franz Childs; architect; born, Painesville, O., Sept. 
6, 1876; son of Franz G. L. and Isabel Childs Warner; educated, 
Painesville public schools and Case School of Applied Science; 
married, Youngstown, O., July 12, 1902, Hazel Virginia Ward; 
practice has been largely public and semi-public buildings; member 
Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Beta 
Theta Pi Fraternity; member Cleveland Athletic, Automobile, Shore 
and Architectural Clubs. 

WARNER, Worchester Reed; manufacturer; born, Cummington, 
Hampshire County, Mass., May 16, 1846; son of Franklin J. and 
V^esta Wales (Reed) Warner; educated, district school, Cumming- 
ton; (D. Mech. Sc, Western University of Pennsylvania, 1897); 
married, Cleveland, Cornelia F. Blakemore, of Philadelphia, June 
26, 1890; learned machinist's trade at Boston and at Exeter, N. H.; 
with Pratt & Whitney Co., Hartford, Conn.; 1870-1880, and at same 
time pursued studies in astronomy, and other scientific branches, 
and experimented in telescope building as a recreation; in 1881, 
with Ambrose Swasey, established firm of Warner & Swasey, in- 
corporated as The Warner & Swasey Co., 1900; mfrs. machine tool 
and optical instruments of precision, including range-finders, gun- 
sights, field telescopes, etc., for the government; director Citizens' 
Savings & Trust Co., Cleveland Society for Savings; trustee West- 
ern Reserve University, Case School of Applied Science; fellow 
Royal Astronomical Society, A. A. A. S.; member British Astron- 
omical Society, American Society Mechanical Engineers (mgr. 
1890-1893, pres. 1896-1897); past pres. Civil Engineers Club, 
Cleveland; Republican. Clubs: Union, Country, University, Sleepy 
Hollow Country. 

WASCKO, Roman W.; florist; born, Germany, Dec, 3, 1887; son 
of Ernest and Emma Shmemgatzea Wascko; educated, Cleveland 



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public schools; married, Cleveland, Feb. 12, 1903; Mary Pally- 
blank; issue, four children; from 1892 worked for J. W. Wilson as 
florist, till 1901, for Lyman Essex, florist; in 1902 started in busi- 
ness for himself, continuing in one location; member P. H, C. and 
Florist Club. 

WASON, Charles William; retired; born, Cleveland, April 20, 
1854; son of Charles and Matilda Parker Wason; graduated, Cor- 
nell University, 1876; married, Paris, France, January, 1882, Jettie 
Anna Morrill; issue, two daughters, Jettie, now Mrs. Harold Ed- 
wards, Velda, now Mrs. John A. Eithet; married, Cleveland, Sep- 
tember, 1896, Margaret Wright; married, Hamilton, Canada, Febru- 
ary, 1901, Mabel Breckenridge; director Cleveland, Painesville & 
Eastern; Northern Ohio Traction and Light Co., Williamson Build- 
ing Co.; trustee Cleveland Associated Charities; member Kappa 
Alpha, Carnellian Council, Cleveland Engineering Society, Biblio- 
phile Society, Union, Country, Mayfield, Willowwick and' Rowfant 
Clubs. 

WATSON, Wilbur J.; civil engineer; born, Berea, O., April 5, 
1871; son of D. R. and Maria Parker Watson; educated, public 
schools of Berea, Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, B. S. 
(C. S. A. S.), S. E. (C. S. A. S.); married, Cleveland, 1900, Harriet 
Martha Barnes; issue, two daughters; five years in engineering 
dept. of L. S. & M. S. Ey.; nine years as asst. engineer for con- 
sulting engineering firms; last six years engaged in consulting, 
designing and supervising work in connection with construction 
of bridges and buildings for cities, counties, railroads and private 
corporations, etc.; work covers entire eastern part of the United 
States; has ofl&ces in New York and Charlotte, N. C, as well as 
Cleveland; connected with construction of Rocky River bridge. 
New City Hall and many other buildings in Cleveland; chief en- 
gineer and mgr. Wilbur J. Watson & Co.; member American Soci- 
ety of Civil Engineers, Cleveland Engineering Society, American 
Railway Engineering Ass'n, American Electric R. R. Society, Ohio 
Engineering Society, Chamber of Commerce, Phi Delta Theta Fra- 
ternity, Tau Beta Pi Fraternity (Honory), Cleveland Athletic Club; 
Grandfather Watson settled in Cuyahoga County in 1832, and 
Grandfather Parker in Medina County in 1828. 

WEAVER, S. Marshall; dentist; born, Dayton, O., Dec. 13, 
1875; son of W. J. and Mary E. Marshall Weaver; educated, Ra- 
venna High School and Western Reserve University (D. D. S.); 
mar/ied, Cleveland, April 17, 1896; two sons; pres. Weaver Dental 
Specialty Co.; vice pres. Cleveland Vending Co.; director Realty 
Building-Renting Co.; member National, Ohio State, Northern Ohio 
and Cleveland Dental Societies, Delta Sigma Delta, Colonial and 
Cleveland Athletic Clubs; pres. Cleveland Dental Sooietv, 1913- 
1914. 

WEBSTER, John Howard; assignee The Variety Iron Works 
Co.; born, Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 8, 1846; came to Cleveland in 



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1850; public school education, graduated from Yale in 1868; degree 
A. B., Union Law College, 1870; degree LL. B.; received degree of 
A. M. from Yale in 1871; engaged in the practice of law in Cleve- 
land until 1891, when he was appointed assignee for the Variety 
Iron Works Co.; still serving; pres. Chamberlain Cartridge & Tar- 
get Co., Buckeye Milling Co.; vice pres, Penton Publishing Co.; 
interested in other corporations; member Union, University, Row- 
fant Clubs, Cleveland, and University Club, New Haven, Conn.; 
member Japan Society, London, Eng. 

WEIDENTHAIi, Maurice; editor Jewish Independent; born, 
Hungary, Oct. 3, 1856; came to Cleveland as a boy, attending 
Rockwell Street school; married, Cleveland, Feb. 14, 1883, Lida 
Brandes; correspondent New York Dramatic News; reporter and 
critic Cleveland Herald; city editor Cleveland Plain Dealer; re- 
porter and critic Cleveland World (News) ; city editor Cleveland 
Recorder; reporter, dramatic and editorial writer Cleveland Press; 
made politics a specialty, "covering" many national and state 
conventions for Cleveland Press and Scripps-McRae league of 
newspaper; accompanied late Senator Har.na on national campaign 
tours; founded Jewish Independent March 1906, being president of 
the publishing company; member Independent Order B'nai B'rith, 
Knights of Joseph, Sons of Benjamin. 

WEIS, S. H.; architect; born, New York City, September, 1888; 
educated in the grammar and High Schools of Cleveland, and Uni- 
versity of California; married in Cleveland in 1911; pres. and 
treas. Esplanade Realty Co.; member Chamber of Commerce. 

WELCH, Leon Cowles; mechanical engineer; born. Green, N. Y., 
June 20, 1882; educated. High School and Cornell University, M. 
E.; married, Oxford, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1913, Edith Sans Packard; 
1906, started as machinist's helper; has held various positions with 
the following companies: New York Transit Co., Ohio Oil Co., Na- 
tional Transit Co., Northern Pipe Line Co., Buckeye Pipe Line Co.; 
at present division supt. of The Buckeye Pipe Line Co., also a 
director of the company; member American Society Mechanical 
Engineers, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, University Club. Recrea- 
tions: Baseball, Football and Tennis. 

WELLMAN, Samuel Thomas; mechanical engineer; born. Ware- 
ham, Mass., Feb. 5, 1847; son of Samuel K. and Mary L. Besse 
Wellman; educated, Norwich University, Vermont, B. S. and C. E. 
(hon.); married, Stoneham, Mass., Sept. 3, 1868, Julia A. Ballard; 
issue, Mina Bessie, Aug. 11, 1870, Addie Lena, June 1, 1872, Wm. 
S., Nov. 1, 1874, Holley G., May 19, 1881, Frederick S., Dec, 8, 1887; 
served as corporal Co. F, 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, 
1864-1865; built first open hearth furnace in United States to 
make steel commercially. Bay State Works, Boston, 1870; engineer 
and supt, Otis Steel Co,, 1873-1889, building it from the ground up; 
oraanized Wellman, Seaver Engineering Co., 1896, now Wellman, 



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Seaver, Morgan Co.; inventor of the open hearth charging machine, 
and of the application of the lifting magnet to the handling of 
iron and steel, both of these inventions in use in every important 
steel mill in the world, saving millions of dollars a year; 1900- 
1901, pres. of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
chairman of directors of The Wellman, Seaver, Morgan Co.; pres. 
Wellman Bronze Co.; director Daw Chemical Co., and The Caxton 
Building Co.; member American Society Mechanical Engineers, 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Iron and Steel 
Institute, American Electric Chemical Society; belongs to Union 
and Eowfant Clubs. 

WELLS, Thomas Henry; insurance and real estate; born, Lur- 
gan, Ireland, Oct. 13, 1857; son of John and Sara McMurray Wells; 
educated, district school, Jefferson, O., and Grand River Institute, 
Austinburg, O.; married, Cleveland, Dec. 13, 1882, Ella E. Rader; 
issue, one son, Howard R., born, 1890, and Gladys May, born, 1894; 
spent 24 years in Y. M. C. A. work; gen. sec'y Alabama St. Ry. 
Branch, one year; International Ry. Dept,, three years; Niagara 
Falls, Ont., nine years; began business career, 1908, with firm J. H. 
Wells & Co.; former trustee and treas. CoUinwood Congregational 
Church, 1908-1911; member Congregational Club. Recreations: 
Automobiling, Baseball and Chess. His son, Howard, is asst. 
treas. Hall Coal Co.; member Masonic Fraternity; Athlete and 
Football player; educated, Cleveland schools, Collegiate Institute, 
Niagara Falls, Ont. 

WEMFLE, John Jay; merchant; born, Aug. 23, 1849; Ashville, 
N. Y.; son of Hiram S. and Sophia Kidder Wemple; educated, 
Jamestown Union School and Collegiate Institute; took state re- 
gents examination and taught school in Warren County, Pa., and 
in Kansas; railroad agent in Kansas and Nebraska about five 
years; mgr. Paine Lumber Co. 's interests in Nebraska, four years; 
treas. Ohio Sash & Door Co., 24 years; pres. Wholesale Merchants 
Board, Chamber of Commerce, one year; director Chamber of 
Commerce, one year; member Hastings Lodge, F. & A. M., Hast- 
ings, Neb.; Mt. Nebo Commandery, No. 11, K. T., Hastings, Neb.; 
McKinley Chapter, No. 181, R. A. M., Cleveland; Cleveland Ath- 
letic Club, Cleveland Builder's Exchange, Rotary Club, Cleveland 
Board of Lumber Dealers Club, Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland 
Credit Men's Ass'n; Grand Master Masons, Nebraska, 1884-1885; 
Grand Commander, Knights Templar, Nebraska, 1888-1889; pres. 
Cleveland Rotary Club, one term. 

WENNEMAN, Joseph H.; lawyer; born, Cleveland, May 23, 
1871; son of Henry C. and Katharine Hoff Wenneman; educated, 
St. Mary's Parochial School, St. Ignatius College, received A. B., 
1894, M. A , 1895, Western Reserve University Law School, LL. B., 
1896; married, Cleveland, April 12, 1899, Augusta Cecilia Sellers; 
issue, two sons, Joseph A. and William Henry; before entering 
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works; iu 1895 was admitted to the bar; in June, 1895, opened 
law office in Cleveland; in October of that year formed partner- 
ship with Herman Pressor under firm name of Pressor & Wenne- 
man; in 1897, admitted to practice in Federal Courts, and before 
Department of Interior; in 1900, dissolved partnership and prac- 
ticed alone till fall of 1904, then formed partnership with C. O. 
McCray, under firm name of Wenneman & McCray, dissolved this 
relationship in 1908; in February, 1911, formed partnership with 
C. L. Gates and A. E. Edgerton, under firm name of Wenneman, 
Gates & Edgerton; has made a study of insurance and surety law; 
has acted as general agent for various Surety and Casualty com- 
panies; member Cleveland Law Library Ass'n, and Bar Ass'n, 
member St. John's Hospital Building Committee, and St. Stephen's 
Auditorium and School Building Committee, Catholic Mutual Bene- 
fit Ass'n, Grand Deputy of Ohio; Cleveland Chamber of Industry, 
Alumni Ass'n; Western Reserve University Law School president, 
1912-1913. 

WERTHEIM, Max; merchant; born, Cleveland, June 24, 1866; 
son of Julius and Rosa Wise Wertheim; educated, Cleveland May- 
flower and Central High School; married, Cleveland, Jan. 25, 1899, 
Rebecca Mae Sloss; issue, three children; worked for S. Halle for 
two years, then went into the office of Dryfoos & Klein, who were 
succeeded by Klein, Goodhart & Koch; became bookkeeper and went 
into business in 1880 with Kaufman & Sol Hexter for period of 
ten years; dissolution for the firm of The Max G. V/ertheim Co.; 
pres. and treas. The Max G. Wertheim Co., importer and jobbers of 
tailors' trimmings for twenty-two years, and manufacturers of 
waists and dresses for three years; member Excelsior and Oak- 
wood Clubs, Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Ass'n of Credit 
Men, and Cleveland Garment Ass'n. Recreations: Golf and Ath- 
letics. 

WETTSTEIN, Frank Eugene; banking and real estate; born, 
Rochelle, 111., June 6, 1867; son of Otto and Louise Tracy Wett- 
stein; educated, Rochelle High School, class of 1884; married, La 
Porte City, la., Sept. 22, 1896; married Maud Wagoner; issue, two 
sons, William and Frank Jr.; republican; five years a member of 
the Illinois National Guard; in 1889, organized First National 
Bank, La Porte City, la.; in 1900, organized First National Bank, 
Dysort, la.; vice pres. and gen. mgr. Guarantee Title & Trust Co., 
Cleveland; 1903 to 1908, promoted Gates Mills property; built all 
roads at Gates Mills; pres. Pease Engineering Co., 1904 to 1908; 
chairman Board of Trustees, Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Col- 
lege, 1907-1909; chairman Finance Committee, Cleveland Associated 
Charities, 1906-1908; sec 'y and treas. Maple Leaf Land Co., sec'y 
and treas. Davenport, la.. Land & Investment Co.; trustee Cleve- 
land Pulte Medical College; Mason; also member Union and Tippe- 
canoe Clubs and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 

WHITE, Rollin Henry; automobile mnfr.; son of Thomas H. 
White and Almira Greenleaf White; educated, Cornell University, 



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'94, M. E. and E, E.; married, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1896, 
Katharine King; issue, Elizabeth, William King, EoUin Henry, Jr.; 
member Union, Country, and Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs. 

WHITE, Windsor Thomas; pres. The White Co., auto mfrs.; 
born. Orange, Mass., Aug. 28, 1866; son of Thomas H. and Almira 
Greenleaf; degree of B. S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wor- 
cester, Mass.; married, Cleveland, Sept. 14, 1892; Delia Bulkley 
Holden; issue, Thomas Holden, Aug. 4, 1894, Delia Elizabeth, Nov. 
9, 1898, Windsor Holden, July 18, 1905; pres. White Co.; vice pres. 
White Sewing Machine Co.; pres. Park Drop Forge Co.; director 
First National Bank; member Union Tavern, Eoadside, Country, 
Cleveland Automobile, Chagrin Valley Hunt and Gentlemen's 
Driving Clubs, Cleveland; Engineers' Club of New York; Green 
Spring Valley Hunt Club. 

WHITELAW, James Herbert; banker; born, Oshawa, Can., Aug. 
19, 1863; son of John Whitelaw and Mary Arkland Whitelaw; edu- 
cated. Case School of Applied Science; one of the first three stud- 
ents of that institution; married, Cleveland, Feb. 1, 1893, Eleanor 
Sprecher; issue, one daughter, Dorothy Whitelaw; entered Na- 
tional City Bank as collector in January, 1886, and has been with 
that institution ever since; at present cashier National City Bank. 

WHITMAN, Frank Perkins; physicist; born, Troy, N. Y., July 

29, 1853; son of William Warren and Caroline Keith (Perkins) 
Whitman; A. B., Brown University, 1874, A. M. 1877 (hon. Sc. D., 
1900); studied Johns Hopkins; married Charlotte Webster Wheeler, 
of Providence, E. I., May 26, 1881 ; instructor in English and Class- 
ical Schools, Providence, 1874-1878; prof, physics, Eensselaer Poly- 
technic Institute, Troy, 1880-1885; Western Eeserve University 
since 1886; Fellow A. A. A. S. (vice pres. 1898); member American 
Physical Society, Astronomical and Astrophysical Society, Amer- 
ica, Illuminating engineering Society. Contributor to scientific 
journals. 

WHITMORE, Fred A.; real estate, loans; born, Toledo, O., Nov. 

30, 1882; son of Charles A. and Harriet D. Moon Whitmore; public 
school education; married, Toledo, O., July 28, 1902, Lucy J. Weil; 
since 1909 representative of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance 
Co., having been associated with that company for nine years before 
that date. 

WHITNEY, William Henry; insurance; born, Monticello. Minn., 
June 21, 1860; son of Cephas Newhall and Cyrena Patch Whitney; 
educated, Knox College, Galesburg, HI., classical course, 1884; 
married, Trinidad, Colo., 1890, Emma Gmin; issue, four children, 
two sons and two daughters; manager The Phoenix Mutual Life 
Insurance Co.; member executive committee Congregational Club, 
1912, and pres. of The Cleveland Congregational Brotherhood, 
1911-1912; member Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. 



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WHIT WOE TH, T. Evans; publisher; born, Manchester, Eng- 
land; son of Joseph and Martha Lewis Whitworth; educated in 
England; married, Cleveland, Sept. 10, 1900, Elizabeth M. Camp- 
bell; issue, three children j for 20 years see'y and treas. The Whit- 
worth Bros. Co.; pres. The Penton Building Co.; director The Pen- 
ton Press Co., director The Penton Publishing Co., director The 
Ben Franklin Club; member the Ben Franklin and Fellowcraft 
Clubs. 

WICK, Dudley Baldwin; vice pres. Wick Investment.; born, 
Youngstown, O., Oct. 3, 1846; son of Henry and Mary S. Hine 
Wick; attended public school and Oberlin College; married, Paines- 
ville, O., July 28, 1875, Miss Emma Steele; issue, three children; 
Helen, now Mrs. Charles Dukelow of Boston, Warren Corning and 
Dudley B. Jr., deceased; business career; became associated with 
ray father in the banking business; sold interests in the City 
Trust Co., and devoted time to private interests; one of the or- 
ganizers of The North Electric Co.; served as vice pres. till 1907; 
still a director; officer and director in many important business 
concerns in the city; member Chamber of Commerce, Union and 
Eoadside Clubs; Presbyterian denomination; Mason, Oriental Com- 
mandery, K. T. and Scottish Rite Consistory; has held office in all 
branches of the Masonic order. Recreations: Driving and motor- 
ing; associated with private charities and benevolent organizations. 

WIELER, Charles L. F.; electric automobiles; born, Cleveland, 
Feb. 15, 1861; son of Jacob and Salomi Zipf Wieler; educated, 
public schools and Spencerian Business College; married, Cleve- 
land, Jan. 8, 1889, Martha E. Dietz; three children living, Carl L. 
F. Wieler, Jr., Alvina E., Martha E.; for many years pres. and gen. 
mgr. of the Wieler Co., from which he retired to take the gen- 
eral management of The Rauch & Lang Carriage Co.; pres. and 
gen. mgr. The Rauch & Lang Carriage Co., pres. The Detroit Street 
Investment Co.; director and on finance committee The Forest 
City Savings & Trust Co., director The Workingman's Collateral 
Loan Co.; member Masonic Fraternity, Clifton, Union, Athletic, 
Westwood Golf, Automobile and Yacht Clubs, Recreation: Golf. 

WILBEBDING, John Bernard; banking; born, Cleveland, March 
2, 1873; son of Henry and Catherine Wilberding; educated, par- 
ochial and Business College; married, Cleveland, Oct. 28, 1898, Jo- 
hanna Butler; issue, one daughter, Florence; sec'y of The Mutual 
Building & Investment Co.; six years prior to that cashier of the 
company; sec'y and treas. The Fullers Earth Co., and The Lake- 
wood Chemical Co., also The F. S. Hoskins Co.; member Knights 
of Columbus, Athletic, Euclid, Rotary, and Gentleman's Driving 
Clubs. 

WILCOX, Owen N.; attorney; born, Cleveland, Jan. 29, 1880; 
son of Frank N. and Jessie F. Snow Wilcox; educated, Cleveland 
public schools and Central High School, Adelbert College, Western 



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Eeserve University Law School; Bachelor of Letters, Adelbert, 
1902; Bachelor of Laws, Western Eeserve Univer-jity Law School, 
1905; married, Cleveland, Oct. 24, 1905, Margaret Knowlton; issue, 
two sons; pres. and treas. The Gates Legal Publishing Co.; mem- 
ber Delta Tau Delta (College) Fraternity, and Phi Delta Phi (Law 
School) Fraternity. 

WILDMAN, N. R.; commercial paper; born, Pitehur, N. Y., 
Sept. 1, 1879; son of Elijah and Elsie Newton Wildman; educated, 
public schools, Syracuse, N. Y., Fairfield Military Academy, Onon- 
daga Academy; married, Cristhine, O., Sept. 28, 1904, Alice M. 
Snyder; issue, two children; studied law at Syracuse and after a 
time accepted position as traveling adjuster; about three years 
ago became engaged in the commercial paper business, The N. K. 
Wildman Co., pres. and mgr. 

WILHELMY, Otto A.; florist; born. New York City, May 29, 
1889; son of Curt A. and Marie Holoechter Wilhelmy; educated, 
Cleveland public schools and Prag, Germany, High School; mar- 
ried, Cleveland, June 29, 1911, Emily Witting; 1905-1907, at 
greenhouses of The Cleveland Cut Flower Co.; 1908-1909, at Long 
Island private place, gardening and hot house work; 1909-1911, 
landscape work in the south near Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla.; 
1912, landscape work in Cleveland; 1912-1913, florist, decorator 
and designer. 

WILKINS, Bert LeRoy; manufacturer; born, LaGrange, O., 
Dec. 11, 1869; son of H. J. and Anna Rowell Wilkins; educated, 
LaGrange public school and Oberlin Business College; married, 
LaGrange, O., Nov. 27, 1889, Lucy A. Richmond; issue, one 
daughter, Ada Vera; organized the partnership of Wilkins & Raw- 
son, February, 1890; Lakewood Plumbing Co., 1903; Lakewood 
Wash Tray Co., 1906; consolidated the above with Euclid Stove & 
Brick Co., June, 1912; sec'y The Euclid Stove & Brick Co.; part- 
ner The Lakewood Plumbing Co.; director Colonial Savings & 
Loan Co.; Lakewood Lodge, F. & A. M.; Cunningham Chapter, R. 
A. M.; Forest City Commandery, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory, A. 
A., Scottish Rite; Al Koran Temple, A. A, O. N. M. S.; member 
Chamber of Industry. Recreation: Spending summers at cottage, 
Black Lake, Mich. 

WILLARD, Hudson E.; coal business; born, Cleveland, Oct. 18, 
1860; son of Elliott Sherrill and Ruth Hudson Willard; educated, 
Cleveland schools, Brooks Military Academy, and Oberlin College; 
married. New Philadelphia, July 11, 1890, Edith Smith; issue, three 
children; business career, William Bingham & Co., wholesale hard- 
ware, six years; organized The New Philadelphia Pipe Works Co., 
manufactures cast iron pipe; A. C. Saunders & Co., coal and iron ore; 
organized with A. R. Rhodes and M. A. Bradley, The United States 
Coal Co., and kindred organizations and corporations; sec'y, gen. 
mgr. and director The United States Coal Co.; member Clifton, 
Toniiis, and AthLtic Clubs. 



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WILLIAMS, Arnold E.; lake coal shipping agent; born, Eng- 
land, March 12, 1877; son of Alfred and Mary Ball Williams; edu- 
cated, High School and Business College, Canton, O.; agent North- 
western Fuel Co., The Consolidation Coal Co., The Empire Coal Co.; 
director The Northern Lakes Steamship Co.; mgr, Triton Steam- 
ship Co.; 32d degree Mason, Noble of Mystic Shrine; member 
Euclid, Athletic, Tippecanoe and Cleveland Tennis Clubs. 

WILLIAMS, Arthur Baldwin, Jr.; real estate and law; born, 
Glen Eidge, N. Y., April 11, 1874; son of Arthur B. and Ida L. 
Harrison Williams; educated, Yale University, A. B., 1898; Cleve- 
land Law School, LL. B., 1912; married, Scranton, Pa., June 5, 
1901, Emma M. Hanley; admitted to Ohio bar, June, 1912; sec'y 
College Dept., International Committee of Y. M. C. A., 1901-1904; 
sec'y Central Dept., Cleveland Y. M. C. A., 1904-1907; general agt. 
The Cleveland Humane Society, 1908-1913; special lecturer in so- 
ciology, Western Eeserve University, 1912-1913; Green, Cadwall- 
ader. Long Co., real estate, 1913; member Ohio State Bar Ass'n; 
life member Cleveland Associated Charities; sec'y Western Eeserve 
Child Welfare Council; sec'y Ohio Federation of Humane Societies; 
member Yale Alumni Ass'n of Cleveland; Chamber of Commerce, 
Council of Sociology; fraternities. Beta Epsilon, Alpha Chapter, 
Delta Phi Delta, Alpha Chapter, Psi Upsilon Beta Chapter. Eecrea- 
tions: Hunting and Fishing, Camping, bird study and general 
out-door life. 

WILLIAMS, Edward Mason; mnfr.; born, Cleveland, Nov. 9, 
1871; son of Edward Porter and Mary Louise Mason Williams; 
educated, Yale, A. B., 1893; married, Cleveland, Oct. 11, 1899, 
Mary E^if'&ond; issue, four children, Hilda, Madeline, Edward 
Porter and Mary Eaymond; member City Charter Commission, 
1913; began with the Sherwin-Williams Co., in September, 1893; 
supt. of their factory in Montreal, Can., November, 1895 to Oc- 
tober, 1897; then returned to Cleveland; director The Sherwin- 
Williams Co., Laurence Paint Co., Ozark Mining & Smelting Co.. 
Cleveland Box Co., Superior Savings & Trust Co.; member National 
Geographic Society; pres. Childrens' Fresh Air Camp; vice pres. 
Federation of Charities and Philanthropy; chairman Charities 
Committee of Co-operation; director Chamber of Commerce; mem- 
ber executive committee American Electric E. E. Mnfrs. Ass'n; 
member National Child Labor Ass'n; National Society for the 
Prevention of Infant Mortality; member Union, Athletic, Tavern, 
May field. Country, Cleveland Country, Eowfant, Chagrin Valley 
Hunt, Cleveland Gun, and University Clubs. 

WILLIAMS, George Henry; wholesale grocer; born, Cleveland, 
Aug. 17, 1893; son of Eobt. T. and Lulu H. Brooks Williams; edu- 
cated, grammar school, West High, and Dykes Business College, 
one year; stood high in athletics; received business education in 
his father's store, has spent considerable time there for the last ten 
or twelve years; vice pres. The Williams Bros. Co., The Victor Co.; 



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stockholder Northern Ohio Traction Co.; Aurora, Elgin, Chicago 
Traction Co.; member West Side Y. M. C. A., eleven years; mem- 
ber Machine Club. Kecreatious: Boating, Fishing and Touring. 

WILLIAMS, Walter Miller; coal agent; born, Cleveland, Jan. 
26, 1890; son of C. G. and J. Alice Hauer Williams; educated, 
Cleveland public schools and Lakewood High School; married, 
Cleveland, Jan. 17, 1913, Mildred R. Gager; since 1910, Cleveland 
mngr. Tomlinson Co., of Duluth; since 1909, agt. for Berwind Fuel 
Co.; 1910-1911, agt. for Carnegie Coal Company of Pittsburgh, Pa.; 
member Cleveland Athletic Club, and Lakewood Tennis Club. 
Recreations: Tennis and Baseball. 

WILLIAMSON, James D.; clergyman; born, Cleveland, March 
12, 1849; son of Samuel and Mary E. Tirdale Williamson; edu- 
cated, Cleveland public schools, Western Reserve College, A. B., 
Andover and Union Theological Seminaries; honorary degree of 
D.D. from Western Reserve University; married, Elyria, Aug. 4, 
1875, Edith Day Ely; issue, four children; 1875-1884, pastor First 
Presbyterian Church, Norwalk, 0.; 1885-1888, pastor First Pres- 
byterian Church, Warren, O.; 1888-1901, pastor Beckwith Memorial 
Presbyterian Church, Cleveland; trustee and pres. Pro Tem Soci- 
ety for Savings; trustee Western Reserve University, Lake Erie 
College, Hiram House, Goodrich House; member Union, University 
and Mayfield Country Clubs. Recreation: Golf. 

WILLIS, Malcolm Chandler; insurance; born, Cleveland, Oct. 5, 
1871; son of George Henry and Martha Tiebout Willis; educated, 
public schools, Cleveland; married, June 21, 1899, Elsie Dutton; 
with Insurance Exchange for twenty years; sec'y thirteen years; 
director The Home Financing Co., The Mudge & Beech Co.; sec'y 
Cleveland Fire Insurance Exchange; member Insurance Society of 
Cleveland; Chamber of Commerce and Clifton Club. 

WILMERINK, William J.; milk dealer; born, Cleveland, July 
6, 1877; son of J. W. and Jennie Hasselo Wilmerink; married, 
Cleveland, Nov. 20, 1901, Dena F. Becker; issue, three children. 

WILSON, George Henry; dentist; born, Paiuesville, O., March 
3, 1855; son of Dr. David C. and Marion (Flanders) Wilson; edu- 
cated. High School, Painesville, D.D. S., University of Michigan, 
1878; married Kittie, daughter of Rev. Lathrop Cooley, of Cleve- 
land, Jan. 1, 1880; practiced dentistry, Painesville, 1878-1891, 

Cleveland, 1891 ; prof, clinical prosthetic dentistry, Cleveland 

University of Medicine and Surgery, 1891-1892; prof, prosthetic 
dentistry and metallurgy, Western Reserve University, 1892-1904; 
an editor Dentist's Magazine, 1906-1909; member National Dental 
Ass'n; 1st pres., Cleveland Dental Library Ass'n; pres. Northern 
Ohio Dental Ass'n, 1887; Ohio State Dental Ass'n, 1893; Cleve- 
land Dental Society, 1897; member Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity, 
Author: Manual of Dental Prosthetics, 1911; Chapter on Vulcan- 



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ized Eubber as a Base for Artificial Dentures, in Turner's Amer- 
ican Text-Book of Prosthetic Dentistry, 1907; also many papers 
and articles in dental journals. 

WILSON, Dr. Harris R. C; D.D. S.; born, Painesville, O., Sept. 
7, 1881; son of George H. and Kittie Cooley Wilson; educated, 
Painesville and Cleveland graded schools. Western Reserve Acad- 
emy at Hudson, Hiram College, Western Reserve University Den- 
tal School; married, Ravenna, June 20, 1908, Mabel Rogers; issue, 
Kathryn, Roger, Georgetta; member National Dental Ass'n, Ohio 
State Dental Society, Cleveland Dental Society, Northern Ohio 
Dental Ass'n; recording sec'y Cleveland Dental Society, 1913; 
member Clifton Club. 

WILSON, Harwood; iron merchant; born, Trenton, Tenn., Jan. 
15, 1880; son of R. D. and Lydia E. Harwood Wilson; educated, 
Trenton public schools; married, Trenton, Tenn., Dec. 30, 1903, 
Charlotte Virginia Greggard; issue, one daughter; assistant resi- 
dent manager The Rogers, Brown & Co.; member Hermit Club. 

WILSON, James W.; insurance; born. Putney ville. Pa., April 11, 
1873; son of Edward T. C. and Nancy Smith Wilson; educated, 
West Academy and private school; married, McKeesport, Pa., 
Feb. 15, 1899, Sophia Wiegering; issue, three children, William M., 
Dorothy May, and James W. Jr.; Republican; in life insurance 
business since 1900; manager Prudential Insurance Co.; member 
Chamber of Commerce, Athletic and Advertising Clubs. 

WILSON, Thomas H.; banker; born. Liberty, Trumbull County, 
O., Oct, 9, 1841; common school education; married, Youngstown, 
O., Nov. 10, 1863, Louise Fellows; issue, two sons, Willard and 
Henry Bliss; in 1860, began as clerk in private bank of Wick Bros. 
& Co., Youngstown, O.; came to Cleveland in 1888, as cashier of 
First National Bank; in 1903 became vice pres. of the First Na- 
tional Bank; trustee and member of Calvary Presbyterian Church; 
member Chamber of Commerce; regarded as one of the most pro- 
found students of banking in Northern Ohio. 

WING, Francis Joseph; judge; born North Bloomfield, Trum- 
bull County, O., Sept. 14, 1850; son of Joseph Knowles and Mary 
(Brown) Wing; educated, Phillips Academy, Andover, and Har- 
vard University, 1868-1871; married Mary Brackett Remington, 
of Cleveland, Sept. 25, 1878; admitted to Ohio bar; asst. United 
States district attorney, Northern District of Ohio, 1880-1881; 
judge Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, O., 1899-1901; 
United States district judge, Northern District of Ohio, 1901-1905 
(resigned); member Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

WINTON, Alexander; pres. the Winton Motor Carriage Co.; 
born, Scotland, June 20, 1860; educated in the common schools of 
Scotland; began career in the Clyde Ship Yards in 1873; in 1878 



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came to the United States, locating in New York City; came to 
Cleveland in 1885 as supt. the Phoenix Iron Works; three years 
later formed partnership with Thomas Henderson in the manufac- 
ture of bicycles; organized the Winton Bicycle Co.; director in 
the company; organized the present company, serving as pres.; 
life member Boston Yacht Club; member Lakewood Yacht, Clifton 
and Civil Engineers Clubs, and Chicago and Cleveland Automobile 
Associations; member Congregational denomination. 

WISMAB, Fred E.; milk business; born, Cleveland, 1872; son 
of John C. and Hanna Seegert Wismar; educated at Milton Town- 
ship, Wood County, O.; married, Cleveland, 1896, Bertha Schroeder; 
issue, two sons and two daughters; member Loyal Order of Moose. 

WODISKY, Jerome Joseph; merchant tailor; born, Cleveland, 
June 22, 1892; son of Morris and Anna Heller Wodisky; educated, 
public schools and Metropolitan Business College; started in busi- 
ness in May, 1910, at the age of about 18; worked up a trade and 
at the age of 21, has one of the largest merchant tailoring estab- 
lishments on the south and west sides, employing eight people; 
member German Club. Recreations: Music and Photography, is 
entering upon a musical career and is studying piano and vocal, 
studying vocal under a renowned singer and well known teacher. 

WOLF, L. J.; investments; born, Cleveland, 1856; son of Jacob 
and Mathilda Mandelbaum Wolf; educated, Cleveland public 
schools; married, Erie Pa., 1886, Carolyn Mandelbaum; issue, two 
sons; pres. Wolf, Baker Co., Aurora, Elgin & Chicago R. R. Co., 
Western Ohio R. R. Co., Cleveland Mining Co., Laurence Mines 
Co.; vice pres. Cleveland, South Western & Columbus R. R. Co.; 
sec'y Morrison Realty Co.; partner Mandelbaum, Wolf & Lang; 
member Excelsior, Athletic and Oakwood Clubs. 

WOLF, Morris J.; mfr.; born, Cleveland, Oct. 2, 1867; son of 
Jacob and Mathilda Mandelbaum Wolf; Cleveland public school 
education; from 1883 to 1896 associated with J. Wolf in hide and 
tallow business; member of Prince & Wolf, cloak and suit mfrs. 
New York, 1896-1899; Prince, Wolf Co., Cleveland, 1899-1910; pres 
Keetch Knitting Co., Cleveland, 1911-1912; treas. and sec'y Con 

solidated Knitting Co., 1912 ; member Chamber of Commerce 

Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers Board, Chamber of Com 
merce. Association of Women's Wear Manufacturers; member Ex 
celsior and Oakwood Clubs. 

WOLFE, Jesse G.; coal business; born, Webster, W. Va., Dec. 
19, 1881; son of Charles M. and Susan Cole Wolfe; educated. West 
Virginia Wesleyan University and University of West Virginia; 
married, Grafton, W. Va., April, 1909, Grace E. Tregellas; issue, 
one son, Charles Tregellas Wolfe; 1902, with Henderson Coal Co., 
Charlevoi, Pa.; Davis Coal & Coke Co., Simpson, W. Va., 1903; 
auditor L. B. Brydon & Co., 1904-1910; traffic mgr. Hutchinson 



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Coal Co., 1910-1911, Fairmouut, W. Va.; western mgr. Hutchinson 
Coal Co., 1912 to date; Elks (B. P. O. E.); member Methodist- 
Episcopal Church. Eecreation: Baseball, 

WOLSEY, IiOixis; rabbi; born, Jan. 8, 1877, Midland, Mich.; 
son of William and Frances Krueger Wolsey; educated, public 
and High Schools, Chicago, University of Cincinnati, B. A., 1899, 
Hebrew Union College, B. H. L., 1894; rabbi, 1899; post-graduate 
University of Chicago and Western Eeserve University; married, 
June 12, 1912, Florence H. Wiener, daughter of Abraham Wiener, 
Cleveland; rabbi Congregation B 'Ne Isreal, Little Eock, Ark., 
1899-1907; rabbi Euclid Ave. Temple, Cleveland, 1907—; during in- 
cumbency new temple built at Euclid Ave. and East 82d; Chaplain- 
General Arkansas State Guard, 1905; member American Associa- 
tion of Political Science, Eeligious Education Ass'n, Central Con- 
ference of American Eabbis, B'Nai B'Eith, Zeta Beta Tau, West- 
ern Star Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M., Little Eock, Shrine, honorary 
life member B. P. O. E.; Excelsior Club; member of committee to 
nominate Charter Commission, Cleveland, 1912. 

WOOD, James Craven; surgeon; born. Wood County, O., Jan. 11, 
1858; son of General Henry A. and Jane Kankle Wood; A. M., 
Ohio Wesleyan University, M. D., University of Michigan, 1879, 
honorary A. M., University of Michigan, 1912; married, Monroe, 
Mich., Dec. 26, 1884, Julia Kellogg Balkley; issue, Capt. James L. 
Wood, Mrs. Arthur P. Williamson, Justin B, Wood; writer and 
author of a text book on Gynecology; for nine years professor of 
obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, University of 
Michigan; for twenty years professor of diseases of women and 
children, Cleveland Medical College; Ex-pres. of the American In- 
stitute of Homeopathy; fellow of the Eoyal Society of Medicine, 
London, Eng.; trustee Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n and Cleve- 
land Pulte Medical College; member Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity; 
member Union Club. Fishing and Horseback Eiding favorite 
recreations. 

WOODRUFF, Albert W.; automobile business; born, Boston, 
Mass., April 2, 1882; son of Frederick and Fannie Sturtevant 
Woodruff; educated, Brookline High School, Stones (private 
school), Boston; married, Cleveland, May 20, 1907, Ellen M. An- 
drews; issue, one child, not living; has been with following con- 
cerns in order mentioned: Cleveland Plain Dealer, AVestern Ee- 
serve Motor Car Co., The F. B. Stearns Co., Southern Motor 
Works, Nashville, Tenn., as gen. mgr.; F. B. Stearns Co., The 
Peerless Motor Car Co., Lozier Motor Car Co., Detroit; The Lozier 
Sales Co., city, as gen. mgr.; member Cleveland Athletic and Auto- 
mobile Clubs. 

WOODWORTH, Fred J.; banker; born. New Haven, O., Sept. 
22, 1871; son of Jonathan and Martha Welch Woodworth; public 
and High School education; married, Cleveland, Nov. 22, 1905, 
Nellie F. Patton; issue, two daughters, Muriell, born Aug. 19, 



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1895, Marjorie, born Oct. 27, 1898; bookkeeper and teller First 
National Bank, Plymouth, 0., March, 1886 to February, 1889; 
February, 1889, entered Euclid Avenue National Bank, employed 
as discount clerk, teller and in various capacities; July 1, 1895, 
began as asst. cashier of Park National Bank and continuously 
associated with it until consolidation with Euclid Ave. National 
Bank in 1903; continued as asst. cashier of the consolidated bank 
known as the Euclid Park National Bank; in 1904, Euclid Park 
National and the First National Bank consolidated; became vice 
pres. of the consolidated First National Bank; still in that posi- 
tion; treas. Forest City Live Stock & Fair Co.; member Union, 
Mayfield and Hermit Clubs, 

WORDEN, Arthur Motley; manager Worden-Crawford Co.; 
born, Dansville, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1887; son of Charles Arthur and 
Jane Morley Worden; educated. University of Pennsylvania, class 
of 1909, B. of Econ.; director Worden-Crawford Co., and mgr. 
Cleveland office; member Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Hermit and 
Rotary Clubs. 

WORTHINGTON, George H.; merchant; born, Toronto, Can., 
Feb. 13, 1850; son of John and Mary Wellborn Worthington; 
public school and business college education; married. Mount 
Vernon, O., in February, 1878, Mrs. Hannah L, Weaver; worked 
in a wholesale grocery store in Canada for three years; came to 
United States to take charge of his fathers interests as contractor 
in building the Southern Central E. R., in New York State; then 
went to Brownhelm, O., and worked for his father and brother in 
operating a stone quarry; in 1873, admitted to the firm which later 
became the Cleveland Stone Co.; became pres. of the Berea & 
Huron Stone Co.; promotor and organizer of the Beeman Chem- 
ical Co.; pres. the American Chicle Co.; pres. the following: Union 
National Bank, Cleveland, American Chicle Co. of New York, The 
American Dynalite Co., Cleveland, Underwriters Land Co., Mis- 
souri, The Cleveland Stone Co., The Perry-Mathews-Buskirk Stone 
Co., Bedford Stone & E. R. Co., Indiana; director. The Guardian 
Savings & Trust Co., The Chamberlain Cartridge & Target Co., 
Interurban Railway & Terminal Co., The Cincinnati Trust Co., 
The Columbus Gas & Electric Co., and the Southwestern Ohio 
Traction Co.; also interested in zinc and lead mines in Missouri; 
32d degree Mason since 1876; charter member Lake Erie Consis-, 
tory and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine; member Union, 
Euclid, Cleveland Yacht, Country and Roadside Clubs, Cleveland, 
and the New York Yacht Clubs; commodore of the Cleveland 
Yacht Club; owner the "Pricillia"; has the greatest collection 
of stamps in America and one of the three greatest in the world. 

WRIGHT, Arthur Silas; educator; born, Decatur, N. Y., March 
7, 1858; son of Hanson and Fannie M. (Mason) Wright; A. B., 
Union College, 1882, A. M., 1886; Princeton Theological Seminary, 
1884-1885; University of Leipzig, 1885-1887; married, Julia B. Bar- 
hyte, of Schenectady, N. Y., April 2, 1890; junior prof, modern 



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langauges, Union College, 1887-1892; prof, modern languages, Case 
School of Applied Science, since 1893; member Modern Language 
Association of America; Modern Language Association of Ohio. 
Editor: In St. Jurgen (Theodor Storm), 1901; Entwicklungslehre 
(v. Wagner), 1903; Elektronentheorie (Kayser), 1905. 

WEIGHT, Elmer B.; civil engineer; born, Cleveland, 1870; son 
of James M. and Margaret While Wright; educated, Cleveland 
public schools and N. E. O. N. C, Canfield, O.; married, Cleveland, 
1896, Alice E. Pritchard; issue, one daughter, Margaret R. Wright; 
chairman of Board of Trustees of Public Affairs, Nottingham, 0.; 
municipal engineering and surveying in Cleveland and nearby 
cities and villages; in charge of a large part of Cleveland's Park 
System; since 1903 in private practice, supervising improvements in 
many additions to city; surveys all lands owned by the Pennsyl- 
vania Co., and Cleveland Short Line R. E. in the city; member 
Cleveland Engineering Society; Chamber of Commerce and Eeal 
Estate Board; member Automobile Club. Recreation: Suburban 
Farming. 

WBIGHT, Ernest T.; milk bottle exchange; born, England, 
April 11, 1872; son of James and Mary Rebbeck Wright; educated, 
Shaftesbury grammar school; married, New York, Sept. 23, 1900, 
Lilly M. S. Collard; issue, three children; five years was a milk 
dealer on the west side under name of Wright Bros.; in 1905 the 
Health Board of the City ordered every milk dealer to retail his 
milk in glass bottles, to advertise their business, every dealer 
had his name on his bottles; in the course of the business one 
dealers bottles would get into the hands of another dealer; at that 
time there were over 500 dealers in the City, so some system of 
exchange was a necessity; in 1908, he organized the Milk Dealers 
Exchange, putting out wagons to call on the dealers and collect 
bottles not belonging to them; these were all taken to sorting 
works and then delivered to the right owners; the business has 
been successful; he now employs nine men and runs six wagons; 
several other large cities now have exchanges run on his system; 
charter member West Side Milk Dealers Fraternal Union; pres. 
for two years; member Order Sons of St. George; pres. Middle 
West Cricket League; Britiania Cricket Club, and Gilberth Equal- 
ity Bowling League, 1912 to 1914, 

YODEB, Ivan Isaac; physician and surgeon; born, Wadsworth, 
O,, Dec. 30, 1875; son of Noah N. and Susan Overholt Yoder; edu- 
cated, country schools of Medina County, O., until 17 years of age, 
Medina High School, 1897; B. A. degree, Ohio Wesleyan Univers- 
ity, 1901, M. D., Western Reserve University, Medical Dept. 1904, 
A. M., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1905; district physician, 8th 
ward, Cleveland, 1911-1912; asst. surgeon to American Ship Build- 
ing Co., and Cleveland-Pittsburgh ore docks since 1905; has spe- 
cialized in casualty surgery; pres. Yoder Realty Co.; member 
American Medical and Ohio State Medical Ass'ns, Cleveland 



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Academy of Medicine, American Association for Advancement of 
Science; Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M.; Lakewood Tennis Club; 
Civic League of Cleveland. 

YORK, George W.; investment banker; born, 1869; graduated 
from Hiram College in 1892; he has been associated with the 
bond business since 1893; has had a long experience in the pur- 
chase and sale of bonds; has traveled extensively in connection 
with his work; for some years he was mgr. of the Bond Dept. of 
the Otis Co., and in 1911 became a general partner in the firm. 

YORK, Robert H.; mnfr.; born, Michigan, Oct. 29, 1866; son of 
Barney H. and Julia Harkness York; educated, Phillips Academy, 
Andover, Mass.; married, Cleveland, Oct. 3, 1892; Clara Gordon; 
issue, three children; pres. The Berkshire Mnfg. Co.; member 
Union, Tavern, Euclid, Country, Mayfield, Country, and Eoadside 
Clubs, Cleveland; Manhattan, N. Y. 

YOUNG, William Daniel; banker; born, Cleveland, April 19, 
1863; son of John P. and Elizabeth (Borger) Young; educated, 
public schools; married, Aug. 19, 1885, Eertba Kuecht; issue, one 
son, Carlton W., one daughter, Elsie B.; Eepublican; began life as 
cash boy with E. I. Baldwin & Co., until 1880, when he was first 
employed by the National City Bank as messenger; rose through 
the grades of collector, clerk, bookkeeper, teller, asst. cashier and 
cashier to vice pres. (1913), also vice -pres. Bloomfield Develop,- 
ment Co.; pres. American Trading Co.; director The People's Sav- 
ings Bank Co.; member Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M.; Webb 
Chapter, E. A. M.; Cleveland Council; Oriental Commandery, K. 
T.; Al Koran Temple, N. M. S.; Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish 
Eite; Automobile, Automobile Country, and Eotary Clubs. Eecre- 
ation: Motoring. 

YOUNG, WILLIAM F.; sales mgr.; born, Jonesboro, Ind., July 
9, 1862; son of James and Lucinda Bird Young; educated, public 
schools of Jonesboro and Marion Normal College, married, Jones- 
boro, Jan. 29, 1887, Phebe C. Adams; issue, two sons; taught school 
five years in Jonesboro; five years principal of the Gas City, Ind., 
schools; fifteen years in employ of Brunswick, Balke, Callender 
Co., first as traveling salesman, then as branch manager; served 
as township trustee for five years in Mill Township, Grabt County, 
Ind.; member B. P. O. E., No. 39, Omaha, Neb.; K. of P., No. 7, 
Omaha; Ben Hur Lodge No. 15, Fort Wayne, Ind.; member Elks 
Club. 

ZEMAN, Mathew; iron business; born, Probulov, Bohemia, Feb. 
15, 1860; son of John and Anna Zeman; educated, public and high 
schools of Pisek, Bohemia; after leaving school, married, July 20, 
1889, Miss M. Svoboda; issue, three children; Miroslav, graduate 
of public schools and Central Institute, now a student in Tech- 
nical High School, in Prague, Bohemia, Ladimir, who was the first 



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graduate of the Clevelaud Technical High School, attended Case 
School of Applied Science and is now at Cornell University, Oto- 
kar, graduate of public schools and now a student at East Tech- 
nical High School; after he left school he went to Prague, Bo- 
hemia, to learn the iron manufacturing trade; remained two years; 
then entered the Austrian Army to serve his military term; because 
of mechanical knowledge was sent to Turkey and was kept busy 
in erecting hospitals and other buildings for the Australian Gov- 
ernment for three years; after army -discharge remained in Turkey 
for four years, as building contractor of steel structures; then 
came to Cleveland with The Excelsior Iron Works Co., as foreman 
of the first steel structure. The Perry-Payne Bldg. ; remained with 
this firm ten years; m 1895, established an iron manufacturing 
plant of his own on Broadway; in 1905, formed a stock company, 
and erected a new factory on Union Ave.; in 1908, sold his inter- 
ests and returned to Europe, traveling in France, Germany and Bo- 
hemia; returned to Cleveland and established The Zeman Iron 
Works offices E. 55th and Broadway, manufacturing all kinds of 
architectural and ornamental iron specialties; member Knights of 
Pythias, the C. S. P. S., and the Bohemian Turners; his association 
with so many concerns and in so many different countries, has 
given him success. 

ZIEGLER, Daniel H.; dentist; born, Pennsylvania, Feb. 18, 
1870; son of William and Elmira Hendricks Ziegler; educated, Sun- 
neytown, Penn., Academy, Connells College, Pluta, Pa., Western 
Eeserve Dental College, with degree D.D. S.; married, Pluta, Penn., 
July 3, 1905, Florence Hamill; member The Cleveland Dental So- 
ciety; ex-pres. and member of Northern Ohio Dental Society and 
ex-pres. and member Ohio State Dental Society; Delta Sigma Delta 
Fraternity; member Euclid and Athletic Clubs; member Faculty of 
Western Reserve University from 1899 to 190(3. 

ZIMMERMAN, Charles X.; mgr. Luna Park; born, Cleveland, 
Jan. 18, 1865; son of Carl and Theresa Eeis Zimmerman; public 
and high school education; married, Cleveland, June, 1900, Ethel 
Vogt; enlisted Ohio National Guard, 1884; has served continuously 
since; captain Spanish-American War; colonel Aug. 14, 1889; served 
during the Ohio floods of 1913, putting Dayton and Hamilton under 
martial law; comrade Military Order Foreign Wars; member K. of 
P., M. W. of A., Ohio National Guard Ass 'n, Cleveland Athletic 
Club. 

ZIPP, John; mnfg. food products; born, Cleveland, Doc. 13, 1857; 
son of John and Catherine Kreekel Zipp; public school education; 
married, Cleveland, Dec. 27, 1881, Catherine Emig; issue, two chil- 
dren, Helen (Mrs. F. L. Fisher), and John Zipp; first employed in 
the flour and feed business, five years; Jan. 1, 1879, began work 
with John H. Cause, coffee, spice and extracts, till 1885; Sept. 1, 
1885, started in business for himself on Woodland Ave., produce 
flavoring extracts, crushed fruits, baking power, preserves, jellies 



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and jams, under The Quality Brand of ' ' Zipp, ' ' employing 200 
people; pres. The Zipp Co.; member National Union, Cleveland 
Council; member Chamber of Commerce; pres. Cleveland Fanciers 
Clubs; member Commercial Travelers Ass'n; Tippecanoe Club, and 
Athletic Club. Eecreation: Baseball. John Zipp, Sr., came to 
Cleveland in 1846 from Germany and became a building contractor, 
building the Old Stone Church, Case Block and the old Post-office. 

ZOENOW, John C; milk dealer; born, Germany, April 30, ; 

son of William and Mary Leverenz Zornow; graduated from the 
Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, May 17, 1888, Emilie 
Blank; issue, five children; started in the milk business in 1877; 
bought the route from Mr. Miler; soon increased his route to two 
vp^agons; found this too much to care for and keep up the high 
standard of purity; so sold one wagon; keeps milk house in a per- 
fectly sanitary condition and the Zornow Dairy is noted for purity 
and cleanliness; does a large business in milk for babies; member 
Milk Dealers' Fraternal League; Lutheran Benefit Ass'n. Recrea- 
tion: Country Visiting. 



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E. J. Adams 




Gardner Abbott 



Gko. D. Adams 





A. M. Al.BRF.CHT 




Wm. .\(;ne\v 



Carv R. Ar.BURN 



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JXO. A. Al.BIR> 



Mr. W. D. p.. Alkx- 

AXIIKK 





r,. V. Alt MAX 




A. M. Ai.LEX 



W. E. Amri.kk 



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Earl T- Axhrew 




A. 1. AXDERSOX 



X. H. AxsPACii 





Chas. K. Aktek 




(i, TT. Arxdt 



Alfred Arthur 



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Fred. B. Aver 



A. A. Atwatkk 






A. D. Baldwin 




W. T. ]-.ADER 



Fred Baldwin 



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303 





Webb C. Ball 




Sidney M. Bali. 



T. P. P.Af.I.ARD 





J. Barkdull 




A. W. Barber 



C. G. Barkwill 



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H. \'. HaKXK: 




Dr. Hknkv r.ARXK^ 



1)k. \'. E. Barnes 





D. J. Barry 




A. X. ];arr()N 



Albert 1 1. Bates 



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A. L. I'.KCKEK 




P. I. V,.\VV.M 



!)U. \V. 11. r.KCKEU 





A. B. Betz 




C. G. lilX KWITH 



D. F. Bevinhjtdx 



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Frank Biu-ings 




C. T. BiGGERSTAFF 



Geo. a. Bingham 





S. C. Blake 




E. A. Bishop 



Mr. R. H. Blatt 



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307 





H. A. Bijsj 




\o. Blechschmid 



Joseph Bomgardner 





W. N. Bowler 




Tno. a. Bommhardt 



W. H. Boyd 



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H. S. r.RADV 




Artihk l',u\lll.K^" 



T. W. BUAINAKD 






\\M, I. r>KAXl)T 



O. W. r.ROADWEI-L 



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Chas. T. BROnK> 




Stephen E. r.RooKS 



O. T. II ROW .\ 





T. Dave Browx 




r. I. p.Rdwx 



G. J. Buermax 



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Thos. W. Burnham 




R. E. BuRnicK 



Dr. Chas. E. Burt 





F. C. Caine 




Starr Cadwalladkk 



I'^RED. H. Calkv 



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W. H. Canniff 




( . L AMPBEI.L 



C. H. Carleton 





M. r;. CAKKKr. 




F. B. Carpenter 



Frank P. Carroll 



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St). E. CllAKKR 




D. L. ("al'i.kixs 



O. N. Chamukkl.viis: 





Chas. W. Chase 




David Chart.esworth 



Tas. W. Chrisford 



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FRA^■K \\. ( l.AKK 




G. B. Chrtstiax 



T. W. Cl.ARK 





Geo. F. Ci.ouGH 




X. T. Clarke 



Alfred Clum 



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H. B. Cody 




Tv. T. Coach 



Chas. E. Cole 





A. W. Coi.I.lKR 




C. M. COLLACOTT 



J. J. COMERFORD 



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L. S. CONELLY 




J. G. CONANT 



C. B. CouK 





J. D. Cox. Jr. 




B. F. CORDAY 



P. S. Cramptox 



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W. R. Ckev.r 




Harris Creech 



W. K. LklTTEXDEX 





Martin B. Daly 




T. J. CUKKIER 



IkViXG L. Daniel? 



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Mk. W. L. David 




E. C. Daoust 



W. W. Daviess 





Hy. D. Davi^ 




Fkaxk W. Davis 



J. P. Daw LEV 



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H. G. Dean 




k. II. Dawson 



Fred. C Deisuk 





H. U. Deter 




Herm.\nn Dekcim 



T. E. Diederich 



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319 





W. G. DiETZ 




S.L I. i)iKlii<irKS 



IVIk. E. W. Dissette 





A. F. Donaldson 




Theo. Dluzynski 



M. A. Donovan 



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M. F. Donovan 




A. N. DouD 




H. E. Dove 





Ralph M. HkrcKKK 




E. A. Drake 



H. A. DUETEMEVEK 



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321 





A. I). DuxcAX 




\i;i<\ \\. Duff 



Wm. M. Dcncax 





C. S. Eatox 



Wilbur Duxham 




322 



The Book of (ilcvchindcrs 





Rali'h W. Rdwakds 





W. S. Eiisox 



H. P. Eei.ls 





Henry F. Eii.kkt 




Chas, H. Rkhhokn 



Dr. R. C. Kxcei. 



The Book of Clevelandcrs 



323 





A. C. F.RXST 




Theo. Ensign 



Mr. P>. W. Ernst 





Mr. O. D. Eshelman 




C. Ernst 



H. A. Everett 



324 



The Book of Clevelandevs 




\Vm. h. i-:vKk> 




Fkaxk H. Ewixg 




Harrison W. Ewixc 





Geo. L. I'aikjsaxk 




A. C. Faeh 



C. E. Farnsworth 



The Book of Clevehindcrs 



325 





Mk. Edward Fild 




C. F. Fessleu 



L. G. Fix LAY 





^Ui. T. A. Foerstxer 




loHx T. Flehartv 



Geo. n. FddTE 



326 



The Hook of Clevelanclers 





E. T- Foster 




El)\\ Al;|i S. I'.iKI) 



E. M. France 





T. \V. I'KAZIKK 




A. D. Eraser 



L. H. Freeman 



The liooL- of (Ucvc hinders 



'ill 





Du. Maktix FkiEn- 

klCH 




!\Iii.Tox Freshwater 



Al.FREIl I'rITZSCHE 





ToKi. II. Fuller 




C. W. Fuller 



W. Gaede 



328 



The Hook- of (lU'iu'Utndcvii 





H. Garry 




B. M. Gardner 



C. G. Geddes 





Thos. H. Geek 




T. M. Gee 



Frank F. Gentsch 



77u' Booh- of Clevclanders 



329 





M. M. Glekler 




Christian Giri. 



Max p. Goodman 





A. Y. Gowen 




Wm. Gordon 



Geo. F. Grahl 



21 



330 



The Book of ClevcUindcrs 





E. B. Greene 




F. M. Grant 



L. B. Greenleaf 





E. L. Griebung 




L. C. Greiner 



Tos. Grogan 



The Hook of Clevelandevs 



331 





Al.BEKT GrOSSMAX 




TuDGE Geo. A. Groot 



Geo. F. Gund 





H. E. Hackenberg 




TXO. M. GUNDRY 



W. O. TIalpy 



332 



The Uool- of CAcvcUtndcrs 





W. B. Hale 






T. S. Hammkr 




F. E. Hall 



GusTAVE H. Hanxa 



The Book of Clevclandevs 



333 





A. K. Hannen 




W. F. Hanna 



Geo. C. Ha X sex 





Dudley T- Hard 




Rasmus Hansen 



E. E. Hart 



334 



The Book of Clcvfltiiulers 





Geo. C. Hascai.l 



(iEOKGE p. Hart 






P. F. Hayes 




K. F. Hausermax 



Txo. C. IlEAi.n 



The Book of Clevelanders 



335 





E. N. Heiser 




Geo. J. Heffner 



Dr. J. P. Henahax 





^Iyron T. IIerrick 




J. W. Hexcke 



Dr. F. C. TTerrtck 



33C 



The Book of Clcvelundcrs 





TTenrv C. Hieeer 




E. AI. IIerron 



Frank Higley 





H. H. TTiLL 




r'wAXK HlLDEERAXD 



Harry N. Hill 



The Bool- of (llcvcUtnders 



337 





T. Vv\ MOLLYDAY 




Frank B. Hiller 



Alex Holocker 





E. T. Hopple 




D. H. Hopkins 



W. R. Morning 



338 



The Hook of (Uerchmdcrs 





A. E. IldWAKIi 




Hk. \\\ P. IIOKTOX 



A. S. ITowE 





y\. J. HOVNES 




K. L. Howe 



TOHX IIl-I)I,F.TT 



The Book of CAcvchtuders 



339 





R. M. Hn.KTT 




W. L. Hughes 



D. S. TTu>rrnRF.v 





W. D. HrxT 




^^. T. HuxKEL 



A. A. JlrxTEk 



340 



The Hook of ClcvcUuidcrs 





1 lo\. J NO. C. Hut- 
chins 




F. V/. Huston 



W. F. Hyde 





C. E. Jackson 




A. F. nvRF. 



A. N. Teavons 



The Book of Clcvcldiidcrs 



341 





C. A. Jewett 




P. Jensen 



Geo. B. Johnson 





Ai.RERT W. Johnston 




L. A. Johnson 



Frank Z. Tones 



342 



The fiodi: of (Uci'cliiiulrrs 





J. \\'. TUENCLIXG 




A. D. TovcE 



G. Kanner 





W. C. Kasper 




ToHX U. Karr 



Pail G. Kassvlkku 



Till' Hook of CleiH'Utiuiers 



343 





U DOE IT. R. Keeler 



dik 



]f. L. Kaufmax 



F. D. Kei 





Wm. E. Kelly 




W. E. KiLLY 



L. B. Kennedy 



344 



The Hook of CU'vchmdcrs 





y\. D. KlLJIER 




Chas. H. Kibbee 



W. p. King 





F. M. Kirk 




E. \\'. KlXGSBURV 



L. II. KiTTREDGE 



The Book of CAcvelandevs 



345 





John A. Klixg 




JOHN Klef. 



II. H. KXAIT 





A. C. Knight % 1 



A. Knight 



R. A. KocJi 



340 



The Book of Clevclandcrs 





E. F. Kraus 




Wm. Kornman 



Frank S. Krause 





Otto J. Kuenhold 




C. F. KUEHXLE 



Paul Kunze 



The Book of Clcvclaiulevs 347 





Elmer T. Laxg 




Chas. E. J. Laxg 



Geo. C. Lang 





Tacop. Laud 




^^'. T. Latimer 



C. F. La UGH UN 



348 



'J'hc Hook of (Ucpcldiidcrs 





K. P. Lexihan 



E. J. Leavenworth 






S. LlEBEXTlIAL 




\X. I. Lewis 



Tn'o. p. Liecuti 



The Book of Clevclandcrs 



349 





D. S. Livingston 




L. I. LiTZLER 



G. A. LOEFFELEEIN' 





K, D. Lowell 




riKO. A. LOREXTZ 



TL F. LowRY 



350 



The Book of (Ucvcldndcrs 





Paul G. Luekens 




llKXEST LUDWIG 



W. F. Lyon 





R, W. MacDiarmid 




A. J. i\lAc Adams 



Yi. }vIcBride 



The Book of Clevelanders 351 





C. A. McDonald 




A. P. AIcCallie 



S. P. McIXTOSH 





E. C. McKay 




D. C. McIXTYRE 



RoBT. H. jMcKav 



352 



The Hook of Clcvclaiulcrs 





IT. 11. McKeehan 




A. G. McKee 



Ch.\S. T. McKlNSTRY 





R. E. McMasters 




Rev. \^■^r. McMahox 



I. E. McMiEi.ix. Tr. 



The Book of Clcvcldiidcrs 



353 





IT. L. :\Iach 




I. F. McNuTT 



C. W. Maedie 





Fred Maly 




C. L. AIagel 



F. A. AIanchester 



354 The Book of Clcvcldiulcrs 





G. C. Mapes 




AI. J. AlANDELUAUil 



S. W. AIatiier 





C. E. Max FIELD 




Fred .Mattmueller 



F. B. Meade 



The Book of (Jh'i'cldiulers 



355 





\V. ■\Ierkiam 






Adolph ]\Ienjou 



E. E. ATerville 




Dr. ]\!vrox ;\Ietzen- 

EAUM 




""red ?\[eyer 




Casper J. ^Miller 



3oG 



'J'hc Book of (Ucvcldiulcrs 





Samuel ^Tiller 




Dan T. ^Miller 



G. M. Mills 





W. E. ]\riNSHALL 




C. F. MiNNICK 



Ralph 1). ?iIrrcnELL 



The Book of ClcvehiiuliTs 357 





E. J. ^loOXEV 




Herr. C. Moatz 



:\I. p. .AIodXKV 





ROBT. D, MORGAX 




C. 1'. AFoKCAN" 



Isaac Morri:^ 



358 



The Bool: of ClcvfUtinicrs 





V. IT. >,IORITZ 




CiiAS. A. INIoRKie 



Grs C. ]\Ioss 





C. L. IMURFEY 




I'"kaxk AIulhauser 



L. A. MURFEV 



The Bool: of Clcvcldiidcrs 



359 





C. r.. Murray 




Rf.v. G. F. IMurphv 



W, P. AIl-rray 





T. A. Nally 




W. E. Myers 



H. H. Neale 



360 



The liook of Clcvcldiulcrs 





Dr. Txi). Nei'kergkr 




Cai't. N. B. Nelson 



Ezra Nicholson' 





R. G. NiERMAN 




I). Xi.Oi 



])k. L. a. Xoele 



The Book of Clevcldiulcrs 



:i()l 





V\'. W. NORRIS 




Herman J. Nord 



1)k. Frank Xovtlle 





\Vm. Oberdoerster 



August Ober- 
doerster 




C. C. O'Brient 



3(i2 The Book of Clevelanders 





C. H. Olds 




H. S. Odkert 



J. H. Oliver 





J. A. OrLanghery 




Geo. H. Olmsted 



A. H. Otis 



The Book of Clevelanders 



363 





A. E. Otter 




Chas. Otis 



J. R. Owens, DD. 





H. D. Palmer ? 




C. A. Paine 



M. B. Parker 



364 



The Book of CIcvrldndcrs 





E. T- Pakrisii 




r. C. Parrett 



C. A. Parsons 





E. L. Patch IX 




Harry A. Parsoxs 



W. E. Pattkksox 



The Book of Ch'vcUindcvs 



365 





]1akkv F. Payer 




C. \\'. Pattisox 



Txo. A. Pentox 





T. B. Perkixs 




\\ II, i'Kkiii_-i;: 



I. C. Petra 



366 



The Book of Clevelanders 





W. G. Phare 




J. R. Petrie 



HOMAS B. PiCKARD 





Clifford E. Pierce 




P T. Pickett 



S. L. Pierce 



The Book of Clevelanders 



367 





Dr. T. C. Placak 




F. C. PiNYOUN 



A. C. Plummer 





E. M. Post 




Jos. R. POE 



F. P. Potter 



368 



The Hook of Clcvcldiulcrs 





Txo. H. Price 




A. E. Powell 



Jos. Prince 





Tos. F. Puosser 




P. T. Protseck 



A\'. T. Pullman 



The JUxil: of CJi'vcUuidcrs 



3(i!) 





r. R. PuTNAiE 



Chas. p. Punchakd, 

Jr. 




Frank A. Quail 





Ivan T. Quick 




R. L. QuEissEi. 



F. P. Rankin 



370 



The Book of Cleoelunders 





ToHNNV Ray 




L. Q. Rawson 



Fdk. Reading 





Chas. S. Reed, Judge 




D. A. Reamek 



J. F. Reichert 



The Book of Clevelanders 371 





Mathew Reitz 




A. F. Reid 



R. R. Rhodes 





£,^H E. A. Richardson 




E. Rice 



Eugene Rider 



372 



The Book of CAcvchuiders 





II. }iIf.l\i.y Roberts 




E. D. Rider 



J. J. ROBY 





A. X. RODWAV 




Sam'l Rockwell 



John Roehl 



The Book of Clcvclandcrs 373 





R. O. Rote 




Louis Roriteimer 



Alovsius L. Roth 





H. Roubicek 




W'm.' Rothexberg 



Edd a. Rrr.Gi.ES 



374 The Book of Clevelanders 





F. H. RuPLE 




Jas. B. Ruhl 



Edw. Rupp 





S. S. Saffold 




Geo. a. Rutherford 



Chas. p. Salen 



The Book of CleveUinders 375 





C. E. Sanders 




Peter Samman 



O. C. Saum 





Leroy p. Sawyer 




C. W. Saunders 



T. K. Saywell 



37() VVic Hook of CIcrcldnilers 





Jos. SCHAUWECKER 




Fi;ed Schauffler 



O. R. SCHMIIiT 





Geo. a. Schneider 




iios. P. ScH^[IUT 



Gl'Stave Schneider 



The Book of CleveUmders 



371 





HOS. G. SCHULKINS 




Geo. L. Schryver 



Andrew W. Scobie 





Frank C. Scott 




L. T. SCOFIELD 



W. C. Scott 



24 



378 



The Booh- of Clevehmciers 





George W. Shaw 




F. B. Senter 



F. S. Sheets 





A. B. Shepard 




IIeri'.kkt Sheldon 



Wm. Sherman 



The Hook of CleiH'laiidcis 



379 





]>. Shields 




J [. T. Sherwood 



F. P. Shumaker 





Kv.v. Tno. a. Sidley 




(J. B. SiDDALL 



G. L. SiGLEF 



380 



The Book of Clevelanders 





Ren F. Silliman 




L. M. SiGLER 



H. Prescott Simpson 





M. R. Slocum 




C. W. Sloan 



Harold E. Smith 



The Book of Cleoelanders 



381 





John W. Smith 




John A. Smith 



W. A. C. Smith 





J. R. Snyder 




W. H. Smith 



H. R. St 



382 



The Book of CAciH'UtiuU-rH 





F.nW. n. SOMMER 




ClIAS. SiiMEK^ 



P.. J. Speck 





Dr. I). \\. SrrcER 




)k. T. G. Spenzer 



E. D. Spragi^e 



77j(' Hook of CleueUindcrs 



;i83 





C. H. Spriggs 




Dr. F. T- Spkague 



K. IjiuMis Spriggs 





Ax DREW SOUIRE 




A. B. Sprostv 



L. A. Skrp.KR!- 



384 



The Book of Clevelunders 





A. A. Stearns 




H. N. Standart 



G. G. Stehi 





J. H. Stern 




Jesse Stephens 



E. A. Stevens 



The Book of Clevelanders 



385 





T. A. Stevenson 




A. T. Stevens 



Chas. B. Stowe 





Theo. L. Strimple 




Tacob Streitberger 



K. K. Strong 



;i,S(> The Hook of Clcocldndcrs 





E. G. Stroud 




E. J. Strong 



JXO. J. SULLIVAX 





To?. L. SZEPESSV 




T. W. SVKOKA 



L. Tax.vev 



The }U>()k of (Ucvchmdcrs 



•ah: 





Al.KX S. Ta^'LOK 




Tas. T- Tax VAX 



Fraxk F. Taylor 





William W. Taylor 




Fraxk S. T: 



A, R. TeA( HllLT 



388 



The Book of Clevetanders 





Dk. C. K. Teter 




C. L Ikkrv 



Dr. Wm. C. Teter 





Edw. L. Thurston 




A. W. Thomas 



G. A. Tinnerman 



The Book of Clevelanders 



389 





T. H. TOWELL 




G. C. Todd 



Geo. E. Tower 





F. T- Trunecek 




L. H. T 



readway 



J. K. Turner 



300 



The Hook of (llevcUindevs 





M. Uhlrich 




T\n. \\'. IvLliR 



M. A. Ullmann 





R. F. Valentine 




J. C. Ulmer 



J. S Van Epps 



The Hook of (llevehinders 



391 





Hugo E. Varga 



Dk. H. Van Valk- 

ENBURG 




A. J. Vaters 





C. F. Wagner 




Frank J. Vlchek 



L. U. Wain 



392 



The Book of (llevelanders 





H. E. Walkey 




I' \< Walker 



F. C. Warner 





Maiirice Weidenthal 




W. J. Watson 



S. W. Weitz 



The Book of Clcvelanders 



'W^ 





W. E. Werner 




Thos. H. Wklls 



Max G. Wertheim 





Chas. L. F. Wteler 




T. H. WHITKLAW 



F. P.. W'iCHT 



23 



394 



The Book of Clevelanders 





O. N. Wilcox 




T. B. WiLBERDING 



N. R. WiLDMAN 





H. E. WiLLARD 




B. L. WiLKINS 



Geo. H. Williams 



The Book of Clevelanders 



395 





\\'m. T. Wilm 



\\'alter ;\[. Wil- 
liams 




I'. E. Wif 





L. J. Wolf 




T. J. WODISKY 



Jesse G. Wolfe 



39(5 



The Book of Cleuelanders 





Geo. F. Worthing- 

TON 







A. M. WORDEN 



E. T. Wright 





Geo. W. York 




Dr. I. I. Yoder 



R. H. York 



The Book of Clevelanders 



397 





Dr. D. H. Ziegler 




Mathew Zeman 



•John C. Zornow 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Abbott, Gardner 7 

Abel, William Fleming 7 

Aborn, Willard Grant 7 

Adams, Charles E 8 

Adams, Edgar Elliotte 8 

Adams, Edward J 8 

Adams, George tDana 8 

Adams, Harry A 8 

Agnew, William 9 

Aikins, Herbert Austin 9 

Akers, William Joseph 9 

Albl, Michael Albert 9 

Albrecht, A. M 10 

Alburn, Gary Rudolph 10 

Alburn, John Alvin 11 

Alden, Charles E 11 

Alexander, Harold Graham 11 

Allen, Albert Mark 11 

Allen, Dudley Peter 12 

Allyne, Edmund E 12 

Altman, Benjamin F 12 

Ambler, Judge William E 13 

Anderson, Alfred J 13 

Andrews, Earl J 13 

Anisfield, John 14 

Anspach, Nathan H 14 

Anthony, Paul H 14 

Apthorp, Henry 14 

Arbuthnot, Charles Criswell IS 

Arndt, Gustav Henry 15 

Arter, Frank A 16 

Arter, Charles Kingsley 16 

Arthur, Alfred 16 

Asadorian, Dickran 17 

Atwater, Albert Ailing 17 

Avery, Elroy McKendree 17 

Ayer, Frederick B 18 

Bachelder, Frank Jerome 18 

Backus, William Vernon 18 

Bacon, Leon Brooks 19 

Bader, Walter J 20 

Badgley, Sidney Rose 20 

Baehr, Herman C 20 

Baer, Frank House 20 

Baker, Elbert H „.... 21 

Baker, Frederick L 21 

Baker, Newton Diehl 21 

Baker, Walter Charles 21 

Baldwin, Arthur Douglas 21 

Baldwin, Fred 22 

Ball, Webb C 22 

Ballard, Thomas P 22 

Balzhiser, E. C 22 

Barber, Arthur Wellesley 23 

Barker, Raymond H 23 

Barkwill, Charles G 23 

Barnard, Ernest Sargent 23 

Barnes, Herbert V 23 

Barron, Amos N 24 



Page 

Barry, David J 24 

Bartol, George 24 

Bate, Herbert 24 

Bates, Albert Harlow 25 

Bauer, Philip J 25 

Beck, Johann Heinrich 25 

Becker, Albert L 26 

Becker, Henrv A 26 

Beckwith. C. 'G 26 

Bedell, Abner H 26 

Behrens, Frederick 26 

Beidler, Howard T 27 

Bellchambers, Walter A 27 

Bentz, Gus A 27 

Berner, Herman D 27 

Bever, John Jacob 27 

Bicknell, Warren 27 

Biggar, Hamilton Fisk 28 

Biggerstafif, Charles Thomas 28 

Biggs, Charles Lewellyn 29 

Billings, Frank 29 

Bing, Louis S 29 

Bingham, George A 29 

Bishop, Eaton Alfred 30 

Bishop, George E 30 

Bishop, George Taylor 30 

Black, Louis 30 

Blaha, Joseph F 30 

Blair, William L 31 

Blair, Will P 31 

Blake, Samuel Cooper 31 

Blau, William S 32 

Blechschmid, John 32 

Bliss, Harry A 32 

Boggis, Herbert Tames 32 

Bolton, Charles C 32 

Bomgardner, Joseph 33 

Bommhardt, John A 33 

Bonesteel, Willis E 33 

Bonhard, Alfred M 34 

Bonta, Maurice Buford 34 

Borgerhofif, Joseph Leopold 34 

Borton, Fred S 34 

Borton, Thomas Ernest 35 

Bourne, Henry Eldridge 35 

Bowler, Walter Noadiah 35 

Boyd, William H 35 

Bradley, Arthur 36 

Bradley, Dan Freeman 36 

Bradley. Morris A 36 

Brady, James Albert 37 

Brainard, Tyler W 37 

Bramley, William Alfred 37 

Brandt, William T 38 

Brett, William Howard 38 

Brewer, Abraham T 38 

Broadwell, Olin Witmer 38 

Broggini, James 39 

Brooks, Charles S 39 

Brooks, Charles Twing 39 



400 



The Book of Clevelanders 



Page 

Brooks, Stephen E 39 

Brown, Ernest B 39 

Brown, Orlof T 40 

Brown, Paul J 40 

Brown, T. Dave 40 

Bruce, Frank F 40 

Bruch, Frederick W 40 

Brudno, Ezra Selig 41 

Bruno, Ernst W 41 

Brush, Charles Francis 41 

Buerman, George T 42 

Bulkley, Robert Johns 42 

Bunts, Frank Emory , 42 

Burdick, Russell Emmett 42 

Burger, Fred 43 

Burke, Thomas A 43 

Burke, Vernon H 43 

Burkhart, Harry 43 

Burnham, Thomas Winston 43 

Burrows, Charles William 44 

Burrows, George Humphrey 44 

Burton, Charles Emerson 44 

Burton, Theodore Elijah 45 

Buse, William 45 

Bushnell, Thomas Hubbard 45 

Cadwallader, Starr 45 

Caine, Frank C 46 

Caley, Frederick Henry 46 

Calhoun, Newton S 46 

Callow, William George 47 

Campbell, John C 47 

Canfield, George R 47 

Canniff, W. H 47 

Carleton, Charles Henry 48 

Carpenter, Frank B 48 

Carrel, Moses Gray 48 

Carroll, Frank P 49 

Case, Eckstein 49 

Cashman, William J 49 

Cassidy, James H 49 

Caughlin, Thomas 49 

Caulkins, David Lee 50 

Chamberlain, William W 50 

Chamberlain, Charles D SO 

Chamberlain, Oliver N 50 

Champ, Joseph H 51 

Champney, William P 51 

Chandler, Francis M 51 

Chapin, Fred Howard 51 

Chard, William P 52 

Charlesworth, David 52 

Chase, Charles W 52 

Chase, William Wayne 52 

Chesbro, Ellis Jones S3 

Chestnutt, Charles Waddell S3 

Childs, Lyman W S3 

Chisholm, C. Kenneth 53 

Chisholm, Stewart Henry 53 

Chrisford, James W , 54 

Christian, George Bridson 54 

Clark, Frank H 54 

Clark, Neil T 55 

Clark, Robert Henry 55 

Clarke, Norris J 55 

Clarke, John Hessin 55 



Page 

Clarke, Jay N 56 

Cleveland, William H 56 

Clough, George Franklin 56 

Clum, Alfred 56 

Coach, Richard J 57 

Cody, Henry Bissell 57 

Cogan, Tames Edward 57 

Cohn, Albert A 57 

Coleman, Frederick Albert 57 

Collacott, Charles M 58 

Collie, Willard A .'. 58 

Collier, Arthur W , 58 

Collver, D. Jay ' 58 

Comerford, John Joseph 58 

Comey, George P 59 

Comstock, Frank Mason 59 

Conant, Jessie Grant 59 

Conelly, Ludwig S 59 

Congalton, W. P 60 

Conger, James W 60 

Connelly, William Clement 60 

Cook, Albert Judson 60 

Cook, C. Brenton *.... 61 

Cook, Harley Stephen 61 

Cook, Otis Richmond 61 

Cool, Henry R 61 

Corday, B. F 62 

Corlett, William Thomas 62 

Corning, Henry Wick 62 

Cotabish, Nelson C 63 

Cottingham, Walter Horace 63 

Courtney, Clarence W 63 

Cowdery, Warren Hervey 63 

Cowles, John G. W 64 

Cox, Jacob Dolson 64 

Cox, Jacob Dolson, Jr 64 

Cox, John H 65 

Crampton, Paul Scott 65 

Crane, Fred Sanford 65 

Crane, Percie D 65 

Creech, Harris 65 

Creer, William R 65 

Crew, William Binford 66 

Crile, George W 66 

Crofut, William Elmer 66 

Crowell, Benedict .., 66 

Crum, X. X 67 

Cudell, Frank Edward 67 

Cullitan, Frank T 67 

Cunningham, Edward Walter 68 

Currier, John J 68 

Curtis, Mattoon Monroe 68 

Curtiss, J. Milton 69 

Gushing, William Erastus 69 

Cutler, Tames Elbert 69 

Dall, Andrew 69 

Dall, William 70 

Daly, Martin B 70 

Dangler, D. Edward 71 

Daniels, Irving L 72 

Daoust, Edward Chellis 72 

Darby, John Eaton 73 

Davidson, Wilbur Leroy 73 

Daviess, W. W 73 

Davis, Albert Richard 73 



The Book of Clcvelanders 



401 



p^cre 

Davis, Frank W 74 

Davis, Edward Lockwood 74 

Davis, Herbert Leland 74 

Dawley, Tay P 74 

Dawson, Robert H 74 

Day, Luther 74 

Day, William Louis 75 

Decker, Harry 75 

Deering, Robert Waller 75 

Deisher, Frederick Charles 75 

Deming, Barton R 75 

Dercum. Hermann 76 

Devereux, Henry Kelsey 76 

De Voe. Walter 76 

Diederich, Joseph E 76 

Diedricks, Carl J 76 

Dietz, William George 77 

Dillon, James K 77 

Dissette, Edward W 77 

Dluzynski, Theodore 78 

Dodge, Samuel Douglas 78 

Doherty, Joseph G 78 

Donaldson, Albert Finney 78 

Donovan, James 79 

Donovan, Michall F 79 

Doud, Arthur Nathan 79 

Dove, Herman E 80 

Downie, William 80 

Drake, Edward A 80 

Draper, Charles Thomas 80 

Drew, Frank M 81 

Drucker, Ralph M 81 

Duetemeyer, Henry August 81 

Duff, Harry Elmer 81 

Duffey, Bernard T 82 

Duncan, B. M 82 

Duncan, William McKinley 82 

Dunham, Wilbur 82 

Durell, George B '. 82 

Duty, Spencer Marcus 83 

Dyer, J. Milton 83 

Dyke, Frank L 83 

Eaton, Cyrus S 83 

Ebersole, William George 84 

Edmondson, George Mountain 84 

Edson, Willis Scott 84 

Edwards, Ralph Wigmore 85 

Eells, Howard Parmelee 85 

Eichelberger, George Hamilton 85 

Eichhorn, Charles Henry 85 

Einstein, Herman 86 

Einstein, Jacob Leopold 86 

Eirick, William F 86 

Ellis, John Warfield 86 

Ellsworth, Ralph H 86 

Emerman, Maxwell Vernon 87 

Emerson, Oliver Farrar 87 

Emerson, Sam W 87 

Engel. Rudolph Carl 87 

Englander, Louis 88 

English, Virgil P 88 

Ensign, Theodore 88 

Enwright, Roger C 88 

Ernst, A. C 89 

Eshelman, Oriel D 89 



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Everett, Henry A 89 

Everett, Sylvester T 89 

Evers, William H 90 

Ewing, Frank H 90 

Ewing, Harrison W 90 

Excell, Matthew B 91 

Faeh, iMexander Cyril 91 

Fagan, Frank H 91 

Fairbank, George Lorenzo 91 

Fairchild, Egbert Nelson 92 

Fanning, Michael A 92 

Farnsworth, Harry M 92 

Farrelly, Rt. Rev. John Patrick 

D. D 93 

Fernald, Robert Heywood 93 

Fesler, Mayo 94 

Fessler, Carl F 94 

Fetzer, Gottlob 94 

Fiebach, Albert Henry 94 

Fild, Edward 95 

Finch, Edward Brush 95 

Finlay, Lance G 95 

Finley, William F 95 

Flood, William 95 

Foote, George Harry 96 

Ford, Don Berry 96 

Ford, Edward S 96 

Ford, George Whitmarsh 96 

Ford, Horatio 96 

Ford, Horatio Clark 97 

Forman, Jonathan Clayton 97 

Fister, Edwin James 97 

Fowler, Harold North 98 

Fox, Ernest C 98 

Frackleton, Robert James 98 

France. E. Miller 99 

Frankel, Philip 99 

Eraser, Arthur D 99 

Frazee, Henry 99 

Frazier, James Welch 99 

Freeman, Ladbrook H 100 

French, Elmer A 100 

Freshwater, Milton 100 

Fretter, Frank B 100 

Friedrich, Martin 101 

Friend, Frank Carl 101 

Fritzsche, Alfred 101 

Fritzsche, Henry Ernest 102 

Fuller, Clifford W 102 

Fuller, Horace Arthur 102 

Fuller, Hubert Bruce 102 

Fuller, Jay D 103 

Fuller, Joel Ilaven 103 

Gaede, John W 103 

Gammeter, Harry C 103 

Gardner, Burt M 104 

Gardner, George Henry 104 

Garfield, James Rudolph 104 

Garlock, William Henry 105 

Garrettson, George Armstrong 105 

Garry, Thomas H 105 

Gaston, William 105 

Gatch, E. K 106 

Geddes, Chalmer G 106 



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Gee, James McCreary 106 

Geer, Thomas Henry 107 

Gibbons, John Waldron 107 

Gibbs, Harlev Brownell 107 

Gilbreath, Bruce Raymer IDS 

Girl, Christian 108 

Glekler, Michael M 108 

Glidden, Francis Harrington 108 

Goakes, Fred W 109 

Goddard, Dwight 109 

Goiif, Frederick Harris 109 

Goodman, Max P 109 

Gordon, William 110 

Gormsen, James 110 

Goss, Thomas Carr Ill 

Gould, Charles Winthrop Ill 

Goulder, Harvey Danforth Ill 

Gowen, Albert Younglove Ill 

Graham, Adam 112 

Grahl, George F 112 

Grant, Frank M 112 

Grasselli, E. R 112 

Grasselli, Thomas S 113 

Greene, Edward Belden 113 

Greenleaf, Llovd B 113 

Greif, William" 113 

Greiner, Louis C 114 

Gresham, Harry Ernest 114 

(iriebling, Erich L 114 

Gries, Moses J 114 

Groll, George C 115 

Groot, George Anderson 115 

Grossman, Albert 115 

Grossman, Isador 116 

Gundry, John Murton 116 

Gund, George F 116 

Guthrie, Tracy W 117 

Hackenberg, Harvey Edward 117 

Hadden, Alexander 117 

Hailmann, William Nicholas 118 

Haldy, William Oscar 118 

Hale, Edwin Victor 118 

Hale, Willis B 119 

Hall, George Herbert 119 

Hall, Lewis 119 

Hall, Lucien B. 119 

Hall, Orlando 120 

Halle, C. K 120 

Halle, Carl 120 

Halle, Salmon Portland 120 

Handerson, Henry Ebenezer 120 

Hanna, Gus H 121 

Hanna, William F 121 

Hannen, Aaron Kerr 121 

Hannuni, Edwin Alan 121 

Hansen, George C 122 

Hansen, Rasmus 122 

Hard, Dudley Jackson 122 

Harris, Charles 122 

Harris, Edward L 122 

Harris, Frank R 123 

Hart, Emmett Ellsworth 123 

Hart, George P 123 

Hartshorn, George E 124 

Hartz, Augustus Frederic 124 



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Hartzell, Russell S 124 

Harvey, Allyn Fitch 124 

Harvey, M. C 124 

Harvey, Moses William 124 

Hascall, George C 125 

Haserot, Francis H 125 

Haskins, John Henry 125 

Hatch, Henry Reynolds 125 

Hauserman, Earl Frederic 126 

Hawley, Davis 126 

Hayden. Warren Sherman 126 

Hayes, Patrick F 127 

Says, Eugene K 127 

Hays, Louis H 127 

Heald, John C 128 

Heffner, George John 128 

Henahan, Joseph P 128 

Henderson, John Moreland 128 

Henry, Frederick Augustus 129 

Herrick, Frank Rufus 129 

Herrick, Frederick C 129 

Herrick, Myron T 129 

Herron, Edward Manoe 130 

Hertner, Tohn H 130 

Heydler, Charles 130 

Hickox, Ralph W 130 

Hieber, Henry C 130 

Higbee, William Tryon 131 

Higley, Frank 131 

Hill, Hal. H 131 

Hill, Harry N 131 

Hill, Thomas William 131 

Hiller, Frank B 132 

Hilman, Max 132 

Ilindson, Thomas 132 

Hirstius, August J 132 

Hogsett, Thomas H 133 

Holden, Guerdon Stearns 133 

Hollyday, John Wilson 133 

Holocker, Alexander C 134 

Hopkins, Benjamin F 134 

Hopkins, David Harris 134 

Hopkins, Evan Henry 134 

Hopkins, William Rowland 134 

Hopple, Elden J. 135 

Horner, James Richey 135 

Horning, Walter R 135 

Horton, William Perry 136 

Hough, Addison Hills 136 

House, Augustus F 136 

llousum, Bird W 137 

Howard, Albert E 137 

Howard, William Travis 137 

Howe, Albert Z 137 

Howe, Charles Sumner 138 

Howe, Edward Lyman 138 

Howe, William Addison 138 

Howland, Paul 139 

Hoyt, James Humphrey 139 

Hubbard, Sterling William 139 

Hubbell, Benjamin S 139 

Hudlett. Tohn 140 

Hughes, Felix 140 

Hulett, Ralph JNIartin 140 

Hull, John Bartlett 140 

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Humphrey, Dudley S 141 

Hunt, William Henry 141 

Hunter, Alexander A 142 

Hunter, William Ross 142 

Husband, Arthur J 142 

Huston, Frederick Wilhelm 143 

Hutchins, John Corydon 143 

Hyde, Edward Pechior 143 

Hyde, Walker F 144 

Hyre, Alonzo Eugene 144 

Ireland, Robert L 144 

Jackson, Charles Edmund 145 

Janes, Julius French 145 

Jeavons, A. N 145 

Jennings, John Gould 145 

Jensen, Peter 145 

Jerome, Frank J 146 

Johnson, George Baird 146 

Johnson, Levi A 146 

Johnson, Wendell H 147 

Johnston, Albert William 147 

Jones, Frank Z 147 

Jones, Harry Brinton 147 

Jones, T. H 147 

Jones, Paul D 148 

Joyce, Adrian Dwight 148 

Juengling, James W 148 

Kanner, Gabriel 149 

Kasper, William C 149 

Kaufman, Harry Livingston 149 

Kelley, Hermon A 149 

Kelley, Samuel Walter 150 

Kelley, Michael J 150 

Kellogg, Frederick D 150 

Kelly, William Eldred 151 

Kennedy, Frederick Ingham 151 

Kilgore, Robert Murray 151 

Kilmer, Melvin Daniel 151 

King, Herbert Doan 152 

King, Harry Wheelock 152 

King, Warren Phelps 152 

Kingsbury, Edward W 152 

Kirk, Frank M 153 

Kiss, Ernest 153 

Kittredge, Lewis Harris 153 

Klee, John 153 

Klein, Henry F 154 

Klein, Louis 154 

Kline, Homer J 154 

Kline, John Charles 154 

Kline, Virgil P 154 

Klingman, Fred F 155 

Knapp, Howard H 155 

Knight, Augustus C 155 

Knight, Thomas A 155 

Knox, William 156 

Koblitz, Rudolph C 156 

Koch, George D 156 

Koch, Rudolph A 157 

Koehl, William 157 

Kohn, Adolph 157 

Kohn, Jacob B 157 

Konigslow, Otto 157 



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Koons, Louis Albert, Jr 158 

Kornman, William 158 

Kraus, Emil F 158 

Krause, Frank S 158 

Kuechle, Adam William 159 

Kuehn, William J 159 

Kuehnle, Carl Fred 159 

Kuenhold, Otto J 159 

Kundtz, Theodore 160 

Kunze, Paul 160 

Lang, Charles E. J 160 

Lang, Elmer Joseph 160 

Lang, George C 161 

Langdon, Charles T 161 

Lapp, Charles W 161 

Latimer, Jay E 161 

Latty, Samuel D 161 

Laub, Jacob 162 

Laughlin, Charles F 162 

Lawrence, Frank Duran 162 

Lawrence, M. Lyman 162 

Laws, Albert W'. 163 

Leavenworth, Edwin John 163 

Lee, William Granville 163 

Lenihan, Ernest P 163 

Leonard, Rt. Rev. William 

Andrew, D. D 164 

Leuty, Demaline 164 

Lewandowski, S 164 

Lewin, John F 165 

Lewis, Robert Ellsworth 165 

Lewis, Walter Irving 165 

Liebenthal, Melville 165 

Liebenthal, Sylvester 165 

Liechti, John Paul 166 

Lieghley, Per Lee Alvin 166 

Linley, Arthur 166 

Little, Bascom 166 

Litzler. Louis 1 167 

Livingston, David S 167 

Locher, Cyrus 167 

Loeffelbein, Gustav A 167 

Lorentz, George A 168 

Lorenz, Carl 168 

Lotz, John Henry 168 

Lougee, William S 168 

Loughry, James Arthur 168 

Lowe, John C 169 

Lowell, Edwin Dwight 169 

Lowith, Emanuel 169 

Lowry, Hugh F 169 

Lttce, Frank Wellington, D. D 169 

Ludlow, William Wallace 170 

Ludwig, Ernest 170 

Luekens, Paul G 170 

Lynch, Frank E 170 

Lyon, William Francis 170 

MacAdams, Albert Joseph 171 

MacDiarmid, Roy Wright 171 

McAllister, Wilham Barriss 171 

McBride, Malcolm 171 

McCallie, Audley P 172 

McCarrens, John S 172 

McCaslin, Walter L 172 



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McClure, Franklyn Evans 172 

IMcDaniels, Homer 172 

McDonald, Charles A 173 

McGee, John Bernard 173 

McGinness, John Randolph 173 

Mcintosh, Henry Payne 173 

Mcintosh, Henry Payne, Jr 174 

Mclntyre, Donald C 174 

McKay, Edward C 174 

McKay, Robert Hunter 175 

McKeehan, Homer H 175 

McKinstry, Charles T 175 

McMillin, Henry Everett, Jr 175 

McNairy, Amos 175 

McWaters, J. C 175 

Mc Williams, Thomas Samuel 176 

Mabery, Charles Frederick 176 

Mach, Henry Leonard 176 

Maedje, Charles W 176 

Malm, L. Louis 177 

Malv, Fred 177 

Manak, Frank C 177 

Manchester, Frederick A 177 

Mandelbaum, M. J 178 

Mansfield, Howard P 178 

Mapes, George Carlton 178 

Marks, Martin A 178 

Marvin, Ulysses L 179 

Maschke, Maurice 179 

Mather, Samuel 179 

Mather, Samuel Wayne 180 

Mathers, James 181 

Mathews, Herbert 181 

Matthews, John, stage name 

Johnny Ray 181 

Matzen, Hermann N 181 

Meacham. Rowland Thomas 182 

Meade, G. Louis 182 

Meals, Walter D 182 

Meldrum, Andrew Barclay 182 

Mercer, George Wellington 182 

Merihew, Henry Merton 183 

Merner, William E 183 

Merritt, Edward A 183 

Metzenbaum, Myron 183 

Meyer, Gerhard Fred 184 

Miles, Robert Parker 184 

Miller, Burt A 184 

Miller, Casper James 184 

Miller, Charles Russell 184 

Miller, Dan T 185 

Miller, Dayton Clarence 185 

Miller, Otto 185 

Miller, Samuel 186 

Mills, George McKim 186 

Minke, Herman J 186 

Minnick, Chauncev F 186 

Mitchell. Ralph D 186 

Moatz, Ilerliert C 187 

Moon, Dewitt Clinton 187 

Mooney, Edgar J 187 

Mooney, Michael P 187 

Moore, Edward W 188 

Moran, Rev. Francis T 188 

Morgan, Charles F 188 

Morgan, Robert David 188 



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Morison, David 189 

Moritz, Frederick H 189 

Morreau. Albert 189 

Morris, Charles A 189 

Morris, Isaac 190 

Muckley, Henry C 190 

Muhlhauser, Frank 190 

Mulhern. George C 190 

Munn, Ray Edward 191 

Murch, Maynard Hale 191 

Murfey, Charles L 191 

Murfey, Lewis A 191 

Murphy, George F 191 

Murray, Charles B 192 

Myers, Max 192 

Myers, Walter Edward 192 

Nally, John Aloyius 192 

Neale, A. William 193 

Neale, Eugene Edwin 193 

Neale, Harold H 193 

Needs, Samuel Henry 193 

Nelson. Nils B 193 

Newberger, John 194 

Newcomb, Walter E 194 

Newcomb, Robert Burton 194 

Newman, Edward E 194 

Nicholson, Ezra 194 

Nicola, Benjamin D 195 

Noble, Lyman Adams 195 

Noll, Edward A 195 

Nord, Herman J 196 

Norris, Willis W 196 

Noville, Frank 196 

Nutting, John Danforth 196 

O'Brien, Charles C 197 

O'Reilly, Right Rev. Thomas C...197 

Oberdoerster, A 197 

Oberdoerster, William 197 

Odbert, H. S 198 

Oglebay, Crispin 198 

Olds, Charles H 198 

Oliver, John Hemwood 198 

Olmsted, George H 199 

Ong, Tudson W. Jr 199 

Ong, Walter Cain 200 

Orr, Charles 200 

Osborn, Frank Chittenden 200 

Otis, Arthur Houghton 200 

Otis, Charles A., Jr 201 

Otter, Albert Ernest 201 

Owen, Franklin Buchanan 202 

Owens, John Ralph 202 

Pack, Charles Lathrop 202 

Paine, Charles Alfred 203 

Palmer, Herbert David 203 

Palmer, William Pendleton 203 

Parker, Charles Barnsdall 204 

Parmely, Benjamin 204 

Parrett, Benjamin C 204 

Parrish, Ellison J 204 

Parsons, Charles Alfred 205 

Parsons, Harrv Arthur 205 

Patchin, Erie Monroe 205 

Patchin, Eugene L 205 



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Patterson, William Edward 206 

Pattison, Charles W 206 

Payer, Harry F 206 

Pease, Fred A 206 

Peck, Francis J 207 

■ Perdue, Robert H 207 

Perrin, John William 207 

Petrie, John Robertson 208 

Petro, John M 208 

Pfeil, Nicholas 208 

Phare, William G 208 

Pheneger, Charles R 209 

Phypers, Charles J 209 

Phypers, George William 209 

Pickands, Henry S 209 

Pickett, Philhp James 209 

Pierce, Clifford E 210 

Pierce, Stephen Lawrence 210 

Pinkett, George M 210 . 

Pinyoun, Frederick Charles 210 

Placak, Joseph Charles 210 

Plainer, Samuel Ball 211 

Plummer, Artemvts Clark 211 

Poe, Joseph Ralph 211 

Pollock. Wilfred S 212 

Pond, Daniel H 212 

Pool, Charles E 212 

Post, Ernest M 212 

Potter, Frederick P ,. 213 

Powell, Albert E 213 

Pratt, Charles Wheeler 213 

Price, John H 213 

Prince, Joseph 214 

Printz, Alexander 214 

Probeck, A. 214 

Probeck, Henry J 214 

Probeck, P. J 215 

Prosser, Joseph F 215 

Pullman, William J 215 

Punchard. Charles Pierpont, Jr 215 

Putnam, P. R 215 

Quail, Frank Adgate 216 

Queisser, Robert L 216 

Quick, Ivan T 216 

Quinn, Edward Martin 217 

Raber, Charles W 217 

Radde, Carl A 217 

Rains, Fred H 217 

Rankin, John 217 

Ratajczak, Charles 218 

Rattle, James William 218 

Rawson, La Quinio 218 

Reed, Charles Shadrack 218 

Rehor, Anton Karl 219 

Reichert. T. P 219 

Reid, Albert T 219 

Reiman, Joseph 219 

Reitz, Mathew 219 

Rhodes, Robert Russell 220 

Rice, Eranious 220 

Richards, Franklin B 220 

Richards, Thos. B 220 

Richardson, Edward A 220 

Richmond, Charles T 221 



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Rickey, Harry Norris 221 

Ricks, Charles A 221 

Rider, Edwin D 222 

Rider, Eugene ^....222 

Rigo, Henri S 222 

Roach, P. H 222 

Robb, Hunter 222 

Roberts, Clarence J 223 

Robertson, Gunder 223 

Roby, James Justus 223 

Rockefeller, Frank 223 

Rockefeller, John Davison 224 

Rockwell, Samuel 224 

Rodway, A. N 224 

Roehl, John 225 

Rogers, James Hotchkiss 225 

Rogers, George M 225 

Rogers, William Banks 225 

Rohbock, William L 225 

Rorheimer, Louis 226 

Rose, William Ganson 226 

Rosenberg, W. L 226 

Rosenvasser, Herman B 226 

Rote, Robert Ogden 227 

Roth, Aloysius L 227 

Rothenberg, William 227 

Roubicek, Herman 227 

Rudd, George A •. 227 

Rudd, William Cullen 227 

Ruhl, Tames B 228 

Ruple, 'Franklin H 228 

Rupp, Edward 228 

Rutherford, George A 228 

Saffold, Starke Selbert 228 

Salen, Charles P 229 

Samman, Peter 229 

Sanders, Clarence E 229 

Sanders, Williani Brownell 229 

Sanford, Henry Lindsay 230 

Sargent, H. 230 

Sarstedt, Frank A 230 

Saum, O. C 230 

Saunders, Charles William 231 

Savage, Minot Judson 231 

Sawver, Leroy Pursel 231 

Saywell, James K 232 

Schaufi^er, Fred 232 

Schlather, Leonard 232 

Schmidt, Oscar Richard 232 

Schmidt, Thomas Philip 232 

Schmitt, C. A 233 

Schneider, Edward F 233 

Schneider, George A 233 

Schneider, Gustave 233 

Schulkins, Thomas G 234 

Schuster, Joseph J 234 

Schwan, George H 234 

Scobie, Andrew W 234 

Scofield, Levi Tucker 234 

Scott, Frank A 235 

Scott, Frank C 235 

Scott, William C 235 

Scott, Nathan Stone 236 

Scullen, Rev. William A 236 

Senter, Frederick Baldwin 236 



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Severance, Solon L 236 

Sheadle, Jasper Holmes 237 

Sheets, Frank S 237 

Sheldon, Herbert 237 

Shepard, Arthur Bishop 238 

Sherman, William 238 

Sherwin, George N 238 

Sherwin, John 239 

Shields, James B 239 

Shimmon, Claude Wilber 239 

Shiverick, Asa 239 

Sholes, Tustin Grant 240 

Shook, Floyd D 240 

Shulters, Hoyt V 240 

Shumaker, Frank P 240 

Siddall, George Bennett 241 

Sigler, Gilbert Lee 241 

Sigler, Lucius M 241 

Silliman, Benjamin F 241 

Simpson, George C 242 

Simpson, Harry Prescott 242 

Singer, William F 242 

Skeel, John C 242 

Skeel, Roland Edward, 242 

Slatmeyer, Henry G 243 

Sloan, Clark W 243 

Slocum, Milton Russell 243 

Smith, Albert William 243 

Smith, Harold E 244 

Smith, Walter Hubbell 244 

Smith, John Alvaro 244 

Smith, John William 244 

Smith, Matthew 245 

Smith, William A. C 245 

Smith, William Grant 245 

Smith, Wilson George 245 

Smithnight, Louis 246 

Smythe, Alfred Burns 246 

Snider, Martin 246 

Snyder, Harvev R 247 

Snyder, John Royal 247 

Sollmann, Torald Herman 247 

Sommer, Edward H 247 

Speck, Early James 247 

Spenzer, John George 248 

Spicer, Dembe M 248 

Sqrague, Edwin D 248 

Sprague, Ernest M 249 

Sprague, Franklin John 249 

Spriggs, Charles H 249 

Spriggs, E. Loomis 249 

Sprosty, A. B 250 

Spurney, Albert F 250 

Squire, Andrew 250 

Staley, Cady 250 

Standart, Henry Needham 250 

Stanley, Wells Kirk 251 

Stearns, Arthur Adelbert 251 

Stehn, George Gustav 251 

Stephens, Jesse 252 

Sterling, Frederick Augustine 252 

Stern, Joseph L 252 

Stern, Walter G 252 

Stevens, Alfred J 253 

Stevens, Edwin Augustus 253 

Stevens, J. A 253 



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Stewart, George Neil 253 

Stilber, Peter 254 

Stockwell, John Nelson 254 

Stoke, U. S. G 254 

Stone, Warren Sanford 254 

Stowe, Charles Browne 255 

Streitberger, Jacob 255 

Strimple, Theodore L 255 

Strong, Edgar E 255 

Strong, Emmet J 256 

Stroud, Edwin Gerrish 256 

Stutson, Willis 256 

Sullivan, Jeremiah Jay 256 

Sullivan, John J .' 257 

Sulzmann, John M 257 

Svuishine, David 257 

Svoboda, Frank J 258 

Swasey, Ambrose 258 

Sweeney, Patrick Rodger 258 

Swetland, Truman Monroe 259 

Swift, Charles J 259 

Sykora, Joseph W 259 

Szepessy, Joseph L 259 

Tabor, Franklyn Breed 260 

Taft, Gilbert Leslie 260 

Tame, Alfred George 260 

Tanney, La Zell 260 

Tanyan, James J 260 

Taylor, Alexander S 261 

Taylor, Frank F 261 

Taylor, Frank S 261 

Taylor, Henry 261 

Taylor, John Warren 261 

Taylor, Virgil Corydon 262 

Taylor, William N 262 

Teachout, Albert R 262 

Teachout, David William 263 

Teare, Elmer E 263 

Terrv, Carleton Lewis 263 

Tetei", Charles K., D. D. S 263 

Teter, William Crooks 264 

Textor, Oscar 264 

Thomas, Arthur Winfield 264 

Thomas, John J 264 

Thomson," Archibald W 265 

Thurston, Edwin L 265 

Thwing, Charles Franklin 265 

Tillotson, Edwin Gray 265 

Timendorfer, Julius 266 

Tinnerman, George A 266 

Tippv, Worth M 266 

Todd, George C 267 

Tolle, Richard Perry 267 

Tomlinson, George F 267 

Tower, George Edward 267 

Treadway, Francis Wilcox 268 

Treadway, Lyman H 268 

Trescott, Samuel Butler 268 

Trunecek, Frank J 269 

Tuckerman, Jacob Edward 269 

Turner, J. K 269 

Tyler, John Walter 269 

Uhlrich, Emile Marie 270 

Ulchek, Frank J 270 

Ullman. Monroe A 270 



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Ulnier, John Christian 270 

Utzinger, Leonard 271 

Vail, George Skinner 271 

Valentine, Richard F 271 

Van de Bee, Joseph Sherman 272 

Van Epps, John Sminck 272 

Van Epps, Leslie 273 

Van Tress, Herman B 273 

Van Valkenberg, Dr. Horace 273 

Varga, Hugo Eugene 273 

Vickery, Hon. Willis 274 

Vorce, Myron Bond 274 

Wade, Benjamin Franklin 275 

Wade, Jeptha Homer 275 

Wagar, Mars E 275 

Wagner, Jacob 275 

Wain, Lewis H 276 

Waite, Frederick Clayton 276 

Wall, William E 276 

Walker, Frank Ray 276 

Walkey, Charles B 277 

Walkey, Harry Edgar 277 

Walter, Robert E 277 

Walton, John Whittlesey 277 

Walworth, Frank Howard 278 

Ward, Joseph A 278 

Warner, Franz Childs 278 

Warner, Worchester Reed 278 

Wascko, Roman W 278 

Wason, Charles William 279 

Watson, Wilbur T 279 

Weaver, S. Marshall 279 

Webster, John Howard 279 

Weidenthal, Maurice 280 

Weis, S. H 280 

Welch, Leon Cowles 280 

Wellman, Samuel Thomas 280 

Wells, Thomas Henry 281 

Wemple, John Jay 281 

Wenneman, Joseph H 281 

Wertheim, Max 282 

Wettstein, Frank Eugene 282 

White, Rollin Henry 282 

White, Windsor Thomas 283 

Whitelaw, James Herbert 283 

Whitman, Frank Perkins 283 

Whitmore, Fred A 283 

Whitney, William Henry 283 



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Whitworth, T. Evans 284 

Wick, Dudley Baldwin 284 

Wieler, Charles L. F 284 

Wilberding, John Bernard 284 

Wilcox, Owen N 284 

Wildman, N. R 285 

Wilhelmy, Otto A 285 

Wilkins, Bert LeRoy 285 

Willard, Hudson E 285 

Williams, Arnold E 286 

Williams, Arthur Baldwin, Jr 286 

Williams, Edward Mason 286 

Williams, George Henry 286 

Williams, Walter Miller 287 

Williamson, James D 287 

Willis, Malcolm Chandler 287 

Wilmerink, William J 287 

Wilson, George Henry 287 

Wilson, Dr. Harris R. C 288 

Wilson, Harwood 288 

Wilson, Tames W 288 

Wilson, Thomas H 288 

Wing, Francis Joseph 288 

Winton, Alexander 288 

Wismar, Fred E 289 

Wodisky, Jerome Joseph 289 

Wolf, L. J 289 

Wolf, Morris T 289 

Wolfe, Jesse G" 289 

Wolsey, Louis 290 

Wood, James Craven 290 

Woodruff, Albert W 290 

Woodwirth, Fred J 290 

Worden, Arthur Morley 291 

Worthington, George H 291 

Wright, Arthur Silas 291 

Wright, Elmer B 292 

Wright, Ernest T 292 

Yoder, Ivan Isaac 292 

York, George W 293 

York, Robert H 293 

Young, William Daniel 293 

Young, William F 293 

Zeman, Mathew 293 

Ziegler, Daniel H 294 

Zimmerman, Charles X 294 

Zipp, John 294 

Zornow, John C 295 



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Abbott, Gardner 299 

Adams, E. J 299 

Adams, Geo D 299 

Agnew, Wm 299 

Albrecht, A. M 299 

Alburn, Gary R 299 

Alburn, Jno. A 300 

Alden, C. E 300 

Alexander, Mr. W. D. B 300 

Allen, A. M 300 

Altman, B. F 300 

Ambler, W. E 300 

Anderson, A. J 301 

Andrews, Earl J 301 

Anspach. N. H 301 

Arndt, G. H 301 

Arter, Chas. K 301 

Arthur, Alfred 301 

Atwater, A. A 302 

Ayer, Fred. B 302 

Backus, W. V 302 

Bader, W. J 302 

Baldwin, A D 302 

Baldwin, Fred 302 

Ball, Sidney M 303 

Ball, Webb C 303 

Ballard, T. P 303 

Barber, A. W 303 

Bark-dull, J 303 

Barkwill, C. G 303 

Barney, Dr. Henry 304 

Barnes, H. V 304 

Barnes, Dr. V. E 304 

Barron, A. N 304 

Barry, D. J 304 

Bates, Albert H 304 

Bauer, P. J 305 

Becker, A. L 305 

Becker, Dr. W. H 305 

Beckwith, C. G 305 

Betz, A. B 305 

Bevington, D. F 305 

BiggerstatT, C. T 306 

Billings, Frank 306 

Bingham, Geo. A 306 

Bishop, E. A 306 

Blake, S. C 306 

Blatt, Mr. R. H 306 

Blechschmid, Tno 307 

Bliss, H. A. ". 307 

Bomgardner, Joseph 307 

Bommhardt, Jno. A 307 

Bowler, W. N :; 307 

Boyd, W. H 307 

Bradley, Arthur 308 

Brady, H. S 308 

Brainard. T. W 308 

Brandt, Wm. J 308 



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Breed, Dr. W. R 308 

Broadvvell, O. W 308 

Brooks, Stephen E 309 

Brooks, Chas T 309 

Brown, O. T 309 

Brown, P. J 309 

Brown. T. Dave 309 

Buerman, G. J 309 

Burdick, R. E. 310 

Burnham, Thos. W 310 

Burt, Dr. Chas. E 310 

Cadwallader, Starr 310 

Caine, F. C 310 

Caley, Fred. H 310 

Campbell, J. C 311 

Canniff, W. H 311 

Carleton, C. H 311 

Carpenter, F. B 311 

Carrel, M. G 311 

Carroll, Frank P 311 

Caulkins, D. L 312 

Chafer, Jno. E 312 

Chamberlain, O. N 312 

Charles worth, David 312 

Chase, Chas. W ,312 

Chrisford, Tas. W 312 

Christian, G. B 313 

Clark, Frank H 313 

Clark, J. W 313 

Clarke, N. J 313 

Clough, Geo. F 313 

Clum, Alfred 313 

Coach, R. J 314 

Cody, H. B 314 

Cole, Chas. E 314 

Collacott, C. M 314 

Collier, A. W 314 

Comerford, J. J 314 

Conant, J. G 315 

Conelly, L. S 315 

Cook, C. B 315 

Cordav, B. F 315 

Cox, j. D., Jr 315 

Crampton, P. S 315 

Creech, Harris 316 

Creer, W. R 316 

Crittenden, W. E 316 

Currier, J. J 316 

Daly, Martin B 316 

Daniels, Irving L 316 

Daoust, E. C 317 

David, Mr. W. L 317 

Daviess, W. W 317 

Davis, Frank W 317 

Davis, Hy. D 317 

Dawley, J. P 317 

Dawson, R. H 318 



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Dean, H. G 318 

Deisher, Fred. C 318 

Dercum, Hermann 318 

Deter, H. H 318 

Diederich, T. E 318 

Diedricks, Carl J 319 

Dietz, W. G 319 

Dissette, Mr. E. W 319 

DIuzynski, Theo 319 

Donaldson, A. F 319 

Donovan, M. A 319 

Donovan, M. F 320 

Doud, A. N 320 

Dove, H. E 320 

Drake, E. A 320 

Drucker, Ralph M 320 

Duetemeyer, H. A 320 

Duff, Harry E 321 

Duncan, A. D 321 

Duncan, Wm M 321 

Dunham, Wilbur 321 

Eaton, C. S 321 

Eberling, C. M 321 

Edson, W. S 322 

Edwards, Ralph W 322 

Eells, H. P 322 

Eichhorn, Chas. H 322 

Eilert, Henry F 322 

Engel, Dr. R. C 322 

Ensign, Theo 323 

Ernst, A. C 323 

Ernst, Mr. B. W 323 

Ernst, C 323 

Eshelman, Mr. O. D 323 

Everett, H. A 323 

Evers, Wm. H 324 

Ewing, Frank H 324 

Ewing, Harrison W 324 

Faeh, A. C 324 

Fairbank, Geo. L 324 

Farnsvvorth, C. E 324 

Fessler, C. F 325 

Fild, Mr. Edward 325 

Finlay, L. G 325 

Fleharty, John J 325 

Foerstner, Mr. J. A 325 

Foote, Geo. H 325 

Ford, Edward S 326 

Foster, E. J 326 

France, E. M 326 

Eraser, A. D 326 

Frazier, J. W ?.....326 

Freeman, L. H 326 

Freshwater, Milton 327 

Friedrich, Dr. Martin 327 

Fritzsche, Alfred 327 

Fuller, C. W 327 

Fuller, Joel H 327 

Gaede, J. W 327 

Gardner, B. M 328 

Garry, T. H 328 

Geddes, C. G 328 

Gee, J. M 328 

Geer, Thos. H 328 



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Gentsch, Frank F 328 

Girl, Christian 329 

Glekler, M. M 329 

Goodman, Max P 329 

Gordon, Wm : 329 

Gowen, A. Y 329 

Grahl, Geo. F 329 

Grant, F. M 330 

Greene, E. B 330 

Greenleaf, L. B 330 

Greiner, L. C 330 

Griebling, E. L 330 

Grogan, Jos 330 

Groot, Judge Geo. A 331 

Grossman, Albert 331 

Gund, Geo. F 331 

Gundry, Jno. M 331 

Hackenberg, H. E 331 

Haldy, W. 331 

Hale, W. B 332 

Halle, Carl 332 

Hall, Lewis 332 

Hall, F. E 332 

Hammer, T. S 332 

Hanna, Gustave H 332 

Hanna, W. F 333 

Hannen, A. K 333 

Hansen, Geo. C 333 

Hansen, Rasmus 333 

Hard, Dudley J 333 

Hart, E. E 333 

Hart, George P 334 

Hascall, Geo. C 334 

Haskins, B. S 334 

Hauserman, E. F 334 

Hayes, P. F 334 

Heald, Jno. C 334 

Heffner, Geo. J 335 

Heiser, E. N 335 

Henahan, Dr. J. P 335 

Hencke, J. W 335 

Herrick, Myron T 335 

Herrick, Dr. F. C 335 

Herron, E. M 336 

Hieber, Henry C 336 

Higley, Frank 336 

Hildebrand, Frank 336 

Hill, H. H 336 

Hill, Harry N 336 

Hiller, Frank B 337 

Hollyday, J. W 337 

Holocker, Alex '. 337 

Hopkins, D. H 337 

Hopple, E. J 337 

Horning, W. R 337 

Horton, Dr. W. P 338 

Howard, A. E 338 

Howe, A. S 338 

Howe, E. L 338 

Hoynes, M. J 338 

Hudlett, John ,. 338 

Hughes, W. L 339 

Hulett, R. M 339 

Humphrey. D. S 339 

Hunkel, M. J 339 



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Hunt, W. D 339 

Hunter, A. A 339 

Huston, F. W 340 

Hutchins, Hon. Jno. C 340 

Hyde, W. F 340 

Hyre, A. E 340 

Jackson, C. E 340 

Jeavons, A. N 340 

Tensen, P 341 

jewett, C. A 341 

Johnson, Geo. B 341 

Tohnson, L. A 341 

Johnston, Albert W 341 

tones, Frank Z 341 

Joyce, A. D 342 

juengling, J. W 342 

Kanner, G 342 

Karr, John U 342 

Kasper, W. C 342 

Kassulker, Paul G 342 

Kaufman, H. L 343 

Keeler, Judge H. R 343 

Kellogg, F. D 343 

Kelly, W. E 343 

Kelly, Wm. E 343 

Kennedy, L. B 343 

Kibbee, Chas. H 344 

Kilmer, M. D 344 

King, W. P 344 

Kingsbury, E. W 344 

Kirk, F. M 344 

Kittredge, L. H 344 

Klee, John 345 

Kling, John A 345 

Knapp, H. H 345 

Knight, Thomas A 345 

Knight, A. C 345 

Koch, R. A 345 

Kornman, Wm 346 

Kraus, E. F 346 

Krause, Frank S 346 

Kuehnle, C. F 346 

Kuenhold, Otto J 346 

Kunze, Paul 346 

Lang, Chas. E. J 347 

Lang, Elmer J 347 

Lang, Geo. C 347 

Latimer, W. T 347 

Laub, Jacob 347 

Laughlin, C. F 347 

Leavenworth, E. J 348 

Lenihan, E. P 348 

Lewin, Jno. F '. 348 

Lewis, W. 1 348 

Liebenthal, S 348 

Liechti, Jno. P 348 

Litzler, L. 1 349 

Livingston, D. S 349 

Loeffelbein, G. A 349 

Lorentz, Geo. A 349 

Lowell, E. D 349 

Lowry, H. F 349 

Ludwig, Ernest 350 



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Luekens, Paul G 350 

Lyon, W. F 350 

Mac.\dams, A. T 350 

MacDiarmid, R. W 350 

McBride, M 350 

McCallie, A. P 351 

McDonald, C. A 351 

Mcintosh, S. P 351 

Mclntyre, D. C 351 

McKav, E. C 351 

JMcKa'v, Robt. H 351 

McKee, A. G 352 

McKeehan, H. H 352 

McKinstry, Chas. T 352 

McMahon, Rev. Wm 352 

McMasters, R. E 352 

McMillin, H. E., Jr 352 

McNutt, H. F 353 

Mach, H. L 353 

Maedje, C. W 353 

Magel, C. L 353 

Maly, Fred 353 

Manchester, F. A 353 

Mandelbaum, iM. J 354 

Mapes, G. C 354 

Mather, S. W 354 

Mattmueller, Fred 354 

Maxfleld. C. E 354 

Meade, F. B 354 

Alenjou, Adolph 355 

INIerriam, T. W 355 

Merville, E. E 355 

Metzenbaum, Dr. Myron 355 

Meyer, Fred 355 

Miller, Casper J 355 

Miller, Dan T 356 

Miller, Samuel 356 

Mills, G, M 356 

Minnick, C. F 356 

Minshall, W. E 356 

Mitcliell, Ralph D 356 

Moatz, Herb. C 357 

Mooney, E. J 357 

Mooney. M. P 357 

Morgan, C. F 357 

Morgan, Robt. D 357 

Morris, Isaac 357 

Morris, Chas. A 358 

Moritz, F. H 358 

Moss, Gus C 358 

Mulhauser, Frank 358 

Murfey, C. L 358 

Murfey, L. A 358 

Murphy, Rev. G. F 359 

Murray, C. B 359 

Murray, W. P 359 

Myers, W. E 359 

Nally, J. A 359 

Neale, H. H 359 

Nelson, Capt. N. B 360 

Neuberger, Dr. Jno 360 

Nicholson, Ezra 360 

Nicola, B. D 360 

Nierman, R. G 360 



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Noble, Dr. L. A 360 

Nord, Herman J 361 

Norns, W. W 361 

Xoville, Dr. Frank 361 

( )berdoerster, August 361 

( )berdoerster. \Vm 361 

O'Brien, C. C 361 

Odbert, H. S 362 

Olds, C. H 362 

Oliver, J. rl 362 

Olmsted, Geo. H 362 

OrLanghery, T. A 362 

Otis, A. H. ." 362 

Otis, Chas 363 

Otter, A. F. 363 

Owens, J. R., D. D 363 

Paine, C. A 363 

Palmer, H. D 363 

Parker, M. B 363 

Parrett, B. C 364 

Parrisb, E. J 364 

Parsons, C. A 364 

Parsons, Harry A 364 

Patchin, E. L .364 

Patterson, W. E 364 

Pattison, C. W 365 

Payer, Harry F 365 

Penton, Jno. A 365 

Perdue, R. H 365 

Perkins. J. B 365 

Petra, J. C 365 

Petrie, J. R 366 

Phare, W. G 366 

Pickard, Thomas B 366 

Pickett, P. J 366 

Pierce, Clifford E 366 

Pierce, S. L 366 

Pinyoun, F. C 367 

Placak, Dr. J. C 367 

Plummer, A. C 367 

Poe, Jos. R 367 

Post, E. M 367 

Potter, F. P 367 

Powell, A. E 368 

Price, Jno. H 368 

Prince, Jos 368 

Probeck, P. J 368 

Prosser, Jos. F 368 

Pullman. W. J 368 

Punchard, Chas. P.. Jr 369 

Putman, P. R 369 

Quail, Frank A 369 

Queisser, R. L 369 

Quick, Ivan T .369 

Ranklin, F. P 369 

Rawson, L. Q 370 

Ray. Johnny ' 370 

Reading, Fdk 370 

Reamer. D. A 370 

Reed, Judge Chas. S 370 

Reichert, T. F 370 

Reid, .\. F 371 



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Reitz, Mathew 371 

Rhodes, R. R 371 

Rice, E 371 

Richardson, E. A 371 

Rider, Eugene 371 

Rider, E. D 372 

Roberts, H. Melvin 372 

Roby, J. J 372 

Rockwell Samuel ..: 372 

Rodway, A. N 372 

Roehl, John 372 

Rorheimer, Louis 373 

Rote, R. 373 

Roth, Aloysius L .^7.-? 

Rothenberg, Wm 373 

Roubicek, H 373 

Ruggles, Edd A 373 

Ruhl, Jas. B 374 

Ruple, F. H 374 

Rupp, Edw 374 

Rutherford, Geo. A 374 

Saffold, S. S 374 

Salen, Chas. P 374 

Samman, Peter 375 

Sanders, C. E 375 

Saum, O. C 375 

Saunders, C. W 375 

Sawyer, Leroy P 375 

Saywell, J. K 375 

Schauffler, Fred 376 

Schauwecker, Jos 376 

Schmidt, O. R 376 

Schmidt, Thos. P 376 

Schneider, Geo. A 376 

Schneider, Gustave 376 

Schryver, Geo. L 377 

Schulkins, Thos. G 377 

Scobie, Andrew VV 377 

Scofield, L. T 377 

Scott, Frank C 377 

Scott, VV. C 377 

Senter, F. B 378 

Shaw, George W 378 

Sheets, F. S 378 

Sheldon, Herbert 378 

Shepard, A. B 378 

Sherman, Wm 378 

Sherwood, H. J 379 

Shields, J. B 379 

Shumaker, F. P 379 

Siddall, G. B 379 

Sidley, Rev. Jno. A 379 

Sigler, G. L 379 

Sigler, L. M 380 

Silliman, Ben F 380 

Simpson, H. Prescott 380 

Sloan, C. W 380 

Slocum, M. R 380 

Smith, Harold E :....380 

Smith, John A 381 

Smith, Tohn VV 381 

Smith, W. A. C 381 

Smith, W^ H 381 

Snyder, J. R .181 

Snyder, H. R 381 



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Somers, Chas 382 

Somnier, Edw. H 382 

Speck, E. J 382 

Spenzer, Dr. J. G 382 

Spicer, Dr. D. M 382 

Sprague, E. D 382 

.Sprague, Dr. F. J 383 

.Si)riggs, C. H 383 

Spriggs, E. Loomis 383 

.Sprosty, A. B 383 

Squire, .Andrew 383 

Sribers, L. A 383 

Standart, H. N .384 

Stearns, A. A 384 

Stehn, G. G 384 

Stephens, Jesse 384 

Stern, J. H 384 

Stevens, E. A 384 

Stevens, A. J 385 

Stevenson, J. .\ 385 

Stowe, Chas. B 385 

Streitlierger, Jacob .385 

Striniple, Theo. L 385 

Strong, E. E 385 

Strong, E. J 386 

Stroud, E. G 386 

Sullivan, Jno. J 386 

Sykora, J. W 386 

Szepessy, Jos. L 386 

Tanney, L 386 

Tanyan, Tas. J 387 

Taylor, Alex S 387 

Taylor, Frank F 387 

Taylor, Frank S 387 

Taylor, William W 387 

Teachout, A. R 387 

Terry, C. L 388 

Teter, Dr. C. K 388 

Teter, Dr. Wm. C 388 

Thomas, A. W. 388 

Thurston, Edw. L 388 

Tinnerman, G. i\ 388 

Todd, G. C 389 

Towell, T. H 389 

Tower, Geo. E 389 

Treadway, L. H 389 

Trunecek, F. J 389 

Turner, J. K. ,.; 389 



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Tyler, Tno. W 390 

Uhlrich, E. M 390 

UUmann, M. A 390 

Ulnu-r, J. C 390 

Valentine, R. F 390 

Van Epps, T. S 390 

Van Valkenburg, Dr. H 391 

Varga, Hugo E 391 

Vaters, A. J 391 

Vlchek, Frank J 391 

Wagner, C. F 391 

Wain, L. H 391 

Walker, F. R 392 

Walkey, H. E 392 

Warner, F. C 392 

Watson, W. J 392 

Weidenthal, Maurice 392 

Weitz, S. W 392 

Wells, Thos. H 393 

Werner, W. E 393 

Wertheim, Max G 393 

Whitelaw, J. H 393 

Wieler, Chas. L. F 393 

Wight, E. B 393 

Wilberding, T. B 394 

Wilcox, (). N 394 

Wildman, N. R 394 

Wilkins, B. L 394 

Willard, H. E 394 

Williams, Geo. H 394 

Williams, Walter M 395 

Wilmerink, Wm. J. .; 395 

Wismar, F. E 395 

Wodiskv, J. J 395 

Wolf, L. J 395 

Wolfe, Jesse G 395 

Worden, A. M 396 

Worthington. (leo. F 396 

Wright, E. T 396 

Voder, Dr. I. I. ., 396 

Vork, Geo. W 396 

York, R. H. 396 

Zenian, Mathew 397 

Ziegler, Dr. D. H. ..., 397 

Zornow, John C 397 



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